Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 7.15.5
Manvantara· The Manus and right dutyOffer With Love, Then Share Prasāda
“When one gets the opportunity of a suitable auspicious time and place, one should, with love, offer food prepared with ghee to the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and then offer the prasāda to a suitable person — a Vaiṣṇava or brāhmaṇa. This will be the cause of everlasting prosperity.”
What the purport teaches
- When a suitable auspicious time and place are available, one should offer food prepared with ghee to the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The offering should be made with love. The prasāda should then be offered to a suitable Vaiṣṇava or brāhmaṇa.
- Such an offering becomes a cause of everlasting prosperity.
Try this today
Set aside ingredients for a small preparation with ghee to offer lovingly to the Deity and then share as prasāda.
Ask yourself
How can I bring more love into preparing and sharing an offering?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points, practice and question are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport. Read the full purport to go deeper.