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Mantras for offering food and honoring prasadam


The devotees of Krishna recite three times three prayers for offering their food to the Lord. The first is the pranama-mantra of their spiritual master. For uninitiated devotees in ISKCON this is Srila Prabhupada's pranama-mantra, the Srila Prabhupada Pranati:

nama om vishnu-padaya
krishna-presthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-
swamin iti namine

namas te sarasvate deve
gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesa-sunyavadi-
pascatya-desa-tarine

"I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is verydear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter of His lotus feet. Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvati Gosvami. You are kindly preaching the message or Lord Caitanyadeva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism."

The second prayer is offered to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the incarnation of the Lord as a devotee, and is known as the Sri Gauranga Pranama:

namo maha-vadanyaya
krishna-prema-pradaya te
krishnaya krishna-caitanya-
namne gaura-tvise namah

"O most munificent incarnation! You are Krishna Himself appearing as Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Srimati Radharani, and You are widely distributing pure love of Krishna. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You."

The third prayer comes from the Vishnu Purana (1.19.65) and addresses Lord Krishna directly:

namo brahmanya-devaya
go-brahmana-hitaya ca
jagad-dhitaya krsnaya
govindaya namo namah

"My Lord, You are the well-wisher of the cows and the brahmanas, and You are the well-wisher of the entire human society and world."

After reciting these three prayers it is a custom to also chant the maha-mantra three times.

The following prayer is recited before taking prasadam. It is part of the Gitavali, written by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur -- the father of Srila Prabhupada's spiritual master.

sarira abidya-jal, jodendriya tahe kal,
jive phele visaya-sagore
ta'ra madhye jihwa ati, lobhamoy sudurmati,
ta'ke jeta kathina samsare

krishna baro doyamoy, koribare jihwa jay,
sva-prasad-anna dila bhai
sei annamrta pao, radha-krishna-guna gao,
preme dako caitanya-nitai

"O Lord! This material body is a place of ignorance, and the senses are a network of paths leading to death. Somehow, we have fallen into this ocean of material sense enjoyment, and of all the senses the tongue is the most voracious and uncontrollable. It is very difficult to conquer the tongue in this world. But You, dear Krishna, are very kind to us. You have sent this nice prasadam to help us conquer the tongue; therefore let us take this prasada to our full satisfaction and glorify Your Lordships Sri Sri Radha and Krishna and in love call for the help of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda."


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