only eat prasadam

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So our Krsna consciousness movement is teaching this pravrtti-marga, nivrtti-marga, both. "You do not do this" and "You do this." "Do this" means rise early in the morning, mahgala-aratrika. Of course, we must sleep, but not sleep like cats and dogs or animals. Simply sleeping means waste of time. The more you reduce sleeping, then you become perfect. Nidrahara-viharakadi-vijitau. All the Gosvamis in Vrndavana, they conquered over these things. What is this? Nidra, sleeping; ahara, eating; and vihara, and sense pleasure. This is called sannyasa life, reducing sleeping, reducing eating. This is pravrtti-marga. We think, "If I can eat voraciously like an elephant, then my life is successful." No. That is not success life. If you can do without any food, that is success. That is success. This is called nivrtti-marga. But that is not practical; therefore if we promise that we shall not eat anything which is not offered to Krsna, that is tapasya. If you don't go to the restaurant and eat anything nonsense, that is pravrtti-marga. But if you want to stop that restaurant-going, then you take krsna-prasadam, krsna baro doyamoy, koribare jihwa jay, swa-prasad-anna dilo bhai. (More...)

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