Hare Krishna 🙏🏻
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻
Every living entity needs food to survive. Krishna is so merciful that he provides each & every living entity food,shelter & all other things necessary for their survival as described in sastra
“ Nityo Nityanam Cetanas Cetananam
Eko Bahunam yo vidadhati kaman”
Krishna is supreme personality of Godhead amongs all living entity who provides them with all neccesities.
So Krishna Provides kan(Small particle) of food to an ant & Mann(20kg) of food to an elephant.
So arrangement is like that one living entity may be food for the other living entity like it’s said “Jivo Jivasya Jivanam”
So in animal spieces it’s working like that one animal may become food for other animal but when it comes to human it’s not so.
Krishna has provided human with plenty of food stuffs like grains,vegetables,fruits,milk.
so humans don’t have to eat any other animal.
Still there are people in mode of passion & Ignorance who kill innocent animals & eat meat,fish,eggs,ect.
Devotees offer food to Krishna with love & devotion & then eat that food remnants known as Krishna Prasadam.
But what food to offer Krishna that is explained by Krishna himself in Bhagavad Gita
9.26 :
Patram pushpam phalam toyam
Yo me bhaktya prayacchati
Tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
Asnami prayatatmanah
If one offers me with love and devotion a leaf,a flower,fruit a water,I will accept it.
But non devotees sometimes argue that “oh you devotees are eating vegetarian food but plants also has life & just because plant can’t speak you are eating it so you are also bound by sin as non devotees eat non-vegetarian food.
To answer this Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita 3.13 :
Yagna sistasinah santo
Muchyante Sarva kilbisaih
Bhunjate te tv agham papa
Ye pacanty atma karanat
The devotees of the lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is first offered for sacrifice.Others who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin.
So devotees are not bound by any sin as they prepare food that Krishna approved in BG 9.26 & then offer it to Krishna & afterward remnants of that food stuff (Prasadam) they eat.
So in this material world everything done for sense gratification is sin but just because devotees offer it to Krishna ,it is considered as yagna(Sacrifice) & so Krishna releases them from all the sins.
Hare Krishna 🙏🏻
Jaya Srila Prabhupada 🙏🏻🌺
Jaya HG Gauranga Sundar Das Gurudev 🙏🏻🌺