# Food and Eating *On prasādam, vegetarianism, and spiritual nourishment* --- ### Cooking Sins > The difference between cooking here in this temple and in ordinary house is that in ordinary house they're cooking sins. The cooking, it appears that the same, "These people are also cooking," but this cooking and that cooking is different. Here there is no sin, because it is being cooked for Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1970/700504ip.la|Īśopaniṣad Lecture, Los Angeles, 1970]] --- ### A Vow of Surrender > If you make it a vow that "I shall not eat anything which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa," that means it is a surrender. You surrender to Kṛṣṇa, that "My dear Lord, I shall not eat anything which is not offered to You." That's vow. That vow is surrender. And because there is surrender, you are protected from the sinful reaction. — [[spoken/1970/700504ip.la|Īśopaniṣad Lecture, Los Angeles, 1970]] --- ### Control the Tongue > Tongue is the greatest enemy, and it is the greatest friend also. If you allow the tongue to do whatever it likes—smoking, drinking, eating meat, and this and that—then it is your greatest enemy. And if you do not allow the tongue, you can control the tongue, then you can control all the senses, automatically. — [[spoken/1973/730411bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13, New York, 1973]] --- ### Simply by Controlling the Tongue > The tongue should be used always for glorifying the Supreme Lord. That is our business with the tongue. And the tongue should not be allowed to eat anything except *kṛṣṇa-prasāda.* Then you become liberated, simply by controlling the tongue. And if you allow the tongue to do anything, then it is very difficult. — [[spoken/1973/730411bg.ny|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13, New York, 1973]] --- ### Why Kill Animals? > Why should you kill animals? If God has given you so many nice foodstuffs—varieties of fruit, varieties of grain, sufficient milk—why should you take to this obnoxious foodstuff? But it is ill luck, unfortunate. By ill association they've learned all this nonsense. So therefore one has to give up these nonsense habits. That is called *tapasyā.* — [[spoken/1970/701217sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Like Jaundice > Just like in diseased condition we cannot relish very palatable foodstuff. A man suffering from jaundice, if you give him something just like candy, sugar candy, he'll taste it as bitter because he is suffering from jaundice. But sugar candy is not bitter. Similarly, in our diseased condition, this material body, actually you cannot taste real happiness. — [[spoken/1970/701217sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, Surat, 1970]] --- ### No Problem of Eating > There is no problem of eating. They have created this problem. God has given enough food. In America they throw away foodstuff in the ocean. This is nonsense. Because they have no Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they do not know that these food grains belong to Kṛṣṇa. He has sent. So instead of throwing in the ocean, it should be dispatched to the countries where there is scarcity. — [[spoken/1970/701217sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Animals Also Eating > The birds, beasts are eating. Similarly, human body, eating is there. For example, we are, these forty heads, we are traveling. So eating is already there. Before our coming, our Paḍubhai has arranged for our eating. So why should we think for eating? So actually that is the fact. There is no problem of eating. — [[spoken/1970/701217sb.sur|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, Surat, 1970]] --- ### Fallen From Human Society > If one is addicted to illicit sex life, if one is addicted to meat-eating and if one is addicted in intoxicants, then he is immediately fallen from the standard of human society. — [[spoken/1970/701115sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, Bombay, 1970]] --- ### Counteracting Sin > Even if we have committed some sin, by eating this *prasādam* we counteract it. *Mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ.* Because our life is sinful, so we become freed from the sinful activities by eating remnants of foodstuff after offering sacrifice. — [[spoken/1970/700504ip.la|Īśopaniṣad Lecture, Los Angeles, 1970]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on food and eating* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]