new, offer to Krishna first

 
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Suppose you are nicely dressed, and if you give up everything and you take one kaupina, but that is also a dress. So we have to utilize Krsna's thing, but if we take it, accept it as prasadam after offering Krsna... In the Vaisnava philosophy, if somebody is going to use one new pair of cloth, first of all he offers to Krsna. Then he utilizes it. That is Vaisnava philosophy. There is also eating, sleeping. We require residence-everything we require-but we require it as Krsna's prasada. Prasade sarva-duḥkhanam hanir asyopajayate [Bg 2.65].    (More...)

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