There is this specific statement in the Padma Purana: "A person who honors the prasadam and regularly eats it, not exactly in front of the Deity, along with caranamrtam [the water offered to the lotus feet of the Lord, which is mixed with seeds of the tulasi tree], immediately can achieve the results of pious activities which are obtained through ten thousand performances of sacrificial rites."

Caranamrtam is obtained in the morning while the Lord is being washed before dressing. Scented with perfumes and flowers, the water comes gliding down through His lotus feet and is collected and mixed with yogurt. In this way this caranamrtam not only becomes very tastefully flavored, but it also has tremendous spiritual value. It is described in the Padma Purana that even a person who has never been able to give in charity, who has never been able to perform a great sacrifice, who has never been able to study the Vedas, who has never been able to worship the Lord-or, in other words, even one who has never done any pious activities-if he simply drinks the caranamrtam which is kept in the temple, he will become eligible to enter into the kingdom of God . In the temple it is the custom that the caranamrtam be kept in a big pot. The devotees who come to visit and offer respects to the Deity very submissively take three drops of caranamrtam and feel themselves happy in transcendental bliss.