Delicious Sins

Delicious Sins, this phrase sounds very ironic. How can sins be Delicious, they are supposed to be bad and full of misery and suffering. What we as human beings perceive as sins and what sins actually are based on the scriptures   are two different things. In the modern world , sins are  become more personalized, more often than not we hear the phrases, "Oh this could be sin in your religion , for our religion is it not considered as sin" or  " Sins or no sin is good as far as on thinks like that , its all in the mind". It seems that everybody has his philosophy of life, however foolish he or she may be, but they follow their own concocted philosophy. Although the free will provided by Krsna ( God) to every living entity allows one to have his or her own philosophy and idea or concept of what is sin and what is not sin, but whether such an idea is in compliance with the scriptural evidence or not, that is often not verified, hence people misunderstand and have to pay for those sins which they carried out in ignorance. Some may argue that sins carried out in ignorance should not be punished, but just like if a child in ignorance touches the fire, fire still burns the child, similarly if one commits all kinds of sinful activity in ignorance of scriptural teachings he or she is still liable for punishment. In short ignorance is no excuse, since if a person so desires there are many avenues to learn and understand,the things as they are.

 One such sin which everyone of us commit in ignorance is related to eating food hence the name Delicious Sins.. Although it sounds astonishing that how come eating food be sinful , since everyone tends to think that all the food in the world is meant for human consumption. To some extend many can understand even though they may not agree, that meat eating involves cruel killing of animals which according to Vedic literature is sin, since we are taking life of a living entity to satisfy our tongues. Not only meat eating but even eating vegetables, fruits, grains, etc which are obtained from the plants are also sinful, since that also involves killing of living entities, even though killing of plants and killing of animals are not at the same level, still it imposes a minor sin on part of the person eating vegetables etc. Material nature is designed in this way that one will not be able to escape sin and its sinful reaction, since the law of this material nature is that one living entity is food for another, jivo jivasya jivanam.  So how is that one can be freed from these sinful reactions, since without being sinless it is not possible to be liberated from this material entanglement and Go back home back to Godhead.

Sri Krsna solves this apparent contradiction , when he instructs Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita , that  persons who perform sacrifice and take the remnants of the food offered in Sacrifice for the satisfaction of Lord Vishnu are freed from all the sins.  Following two verses establish the necessity of performing yagna or sacrifice and consequences of not doing so.

"In the beginning of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and demigods, along with sacrifices for Visnu, and blessed them by saying, "Be thou happy by this yajna [sacrifice] because its performance will bestow upon you everything desirable for living happily and achieving liberation." [ B.g. 3.10]

 Also the following Bhagavad Gita Verse  explains the glory of getting relieved of sins by offering food stuff in sacrifice to Vishnu.  

yajïa-çiñöäçinaù santo
mucyante sarva-kilbiñaiù
bhuïjate te tv aghaà päpä
ye pacanty ätma-käraëät  [ B.G. 3.13]



"The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin."

Now one may argue  that it sounds logical and we may agree to offer food stuff in sacrifice to Lord Vishnu and take his remnants to get freed from sin, but why there is restriction for eating only vegetables and not meat. Like vegetables it is possible to offer meat to the Lord and it will be purified and then it can be taken as prasadam what is wrong there . The answer to this is also given by Lord Krsna when he specifically mentions how and what food should be offered.

patraà puñpaà phalaà toyaà
yo me bhaktyä prayacchati
tad ahaà bhakty-upahåtam
açnämi prayatätmanaù 
[ B.g. 9.26] 


"If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it."


 Lord Krsna in this verse specifically mentions that the he accepts foodstuff from family of leaf, flower, fruit and water, which means in general vegetables, grains etc, he has not mentioned anything related to meat. Moreover he mentions that only when one offers him these simple food stuffs with Love and Devotion ,he accepts them, otherwise gorgeous preparations of foodstuff prepared without love and devotion are not accepted by the Lord.

There is a nice story in Mahabharata which expalins the nature of the Lord and  proves as a evidence to the statements of Lord Krsna from Bhagavad Gita. Once Lord Krsna visited Hastinapura to visit Pandavas and other relatives. During that time, Duryodhana and Sakuni has some ulterior motives and wanted to Please Lord Krsna to get some favors from him, in general they did not like Lord Krsna , but since they wanted his favor they had prepared a massive feast for Him with a variety of preparations all very tasty and delicious. On the other hand Vidura who was a minister in the court   offered lord Krsna some simple fruits with great devotion and love without wanting anything in return , just to please the Lord for his Pleasure. Lord was overwhelmed by Viduras devotion and accepted those simple offerings and did not even touch the offering made by Duryodana , knowing his intent.

So it is evident that any person who want to be free from eating sins should offer  whatever he can with love and devotion to the lord and then partake of his remnants as prasadam which will certainly purify and elevate the soul to spiritual understanding leading them closer to Love of Godhead. Though in this age of Kali yuga , people generally do not believe in these evidences , since most of the people are after enjoying the senses to the fullest, nevertheless the laws of material nature do not change and one has to suffer the sinful reactions. The laws of nature are working at a very subtle level and nobody in this mortal world has the power to change them. So knowing all this why should we become victims to such sinful reactions, a wise man will take necessary steps to rectify the sins after getting this knowledge. It is best to prepare food in goodness and offer this simple food to Lord Krsna and be satisfied with the prasadam of the lord. We have seen practically people who follow this practice develop such a love for Prasadam that they then do not even look at the  ordinary foodstuff. Just like if one develops a higher taste for a sweet meat , one can give up eating chipped rice. This simple process of cooking simple food and offering to Lord Krsna will rid on of the "Delicious Sins" and will elevate one slowly but steadily to achieve the spiritual enlightenment which will ultimately rid one of all miseries in life

Why Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead

In todays environment when every religion of the world is sort of marketing their ways and methods of worship and presenting different Gods, it  has already become a confusing matter on who God is  and out of so many Gods who is the Supreme?. Due to this many people have decided not to pursue this subject matter and some even worse have become atheist and non believers. It is true that everyone is presenting their own God and professing their own methods. But the cause of confusion is not that so many people are presenting so many things, the cause of confusion lies within us, it is our lack of knowledge and to be more specific it is the lack in our intention to gain this knowledge. The nature of the mind is to follow what everyone is following since it is easy and comfortable, but we tend to not use our intelligence to question whether what all are following is correct ? This post is not to present one more God  to the world, but to emphasize that there is only one GOD and that is Krsna- The Supreme Personality of Godhead. 

His Divine Grace A.C. BhaktiVedanta Swami, Srila Prabhupada, Founder Acharya of International Soceity for Krsna Consciouness, Specifically used  This phrase " The Supreme Personality of Godhead" while describing Krsna, this was to emphatically declare that Krsna is the Supreme Person and he has a Personality i.e. to say that he is not impersonal. Now he gave many logically and scriptural reasons to support this statement, which I will attempt to write in this post. 

In Bhagavad Gita  7th Chapter 7th Verse  , Lord Krsna Himself declares this Truth to Arjuna

mattaḥ parataraḿ nānyat

kiñcid asti dhanañjaya

mayi sarvam idaḿ protaḿ

sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva

" O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread."

Lord Krsna Himself is saying this to Arjuna, if one is intelligent enough to accept this statement and follow the instructions of  Bhagavad Gita As it is , then that person will attain the perfection of life, but since we are in Kali yuga which is called a age of disagreement, most of us do not believe in this statement made by Krsna. Our minds immediately starts speculating, Should i just believe  this only because Krsna is saying ?, to refute this argument Arjuna who is a top cultured warrior following all Vedic regulations, he declares his conclusion after realizing this in the  10th Chapter of Bhagavad Gita  as follows

arjuna uvāca

paraḿ brahma paraḿ dhāma

pavitraḿ paramaḿ bhavān

puruṣaḿ śāśvataḿ divyam

ādi-devam ajaḿ vibhum

āhus tvām ṛṣayaḥ sarve

devarṣir nāradas tathā

asito devalo vyāsaḥ

svayaḿ caiva bravīṣi me

"Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal, transcendental, original person, the unborn, the greatest. All the great sages such as Nārada, Asita, Devala and Vyāsa confirm this truth about You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me."

Now  question may be raised that Arjuna was a friend of Krsna and that is why he was saying this to Krsna out of love and attachment, but to confirm the authority of the statement he further quotes that even the great sages like, Narada, Asita, Devala and Vyasa have accepted you as the Supreme Person , in today context we find many great sages from India like Ramanujacharya, Madhavacarya, Caitanya Mahaprabhu , Nimarka, Vallabhacharya, all have accepted Lord Krsna or Lord Vishnu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even Lord Brahma who is the creator of this universe he mentions the position of Krsna in his Brahma Samhita which was spoke by him after his realization at the mature state of devotional service. 

īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ

sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ

anādir ādir govindaḥ

sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam [ Brahma Samhita 5.1]

"Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes"

Parasara Muni who is the father of Vysadeva, he has given a definition of God, he says one who possesses all  six opulences in full i.e. one who possesses all the riches, all the strength , all the fame, all the beauty, all the renunciation  and all the intelligence, that person is called as Supreme Godhead.  From the pastimes of Krsna and from the scriptures we can find when Krsna was here He displayed each of these opulences in full, nobody could equal or surpass Him in any of these opulences. He was the proprietor of the most beautiful and opulent Dwarka with 16108 palaces for his queens, He was challenged by so many demoniac forces since his childhood, but nobody could kill Him, Bhagavad Gita which was spoken by Krsna is read by all the people all over the world, there is no literature found in the world as compared to Bhagavad Gita in  the intellectual wealth and wisdom , In his incarnation of Lord Rama he left the kingdom without any hesitation on the order of  his father displaying his opulence of supreme renunciation, and in beauty there was no one comparable to Him during that time as known from the scriptures. 

There is a very  instructive story as narrated by Srila Prabhupada to explain that how logically also we find Krsna to be the Supreme Person. One German Philosopher hearing about the spiritual heritage of India, went to India to investigate who is God. So in his quest he met many yogis , swamis, he went to many temples in India, he went to Shiva Temple, Durga Temple, he went to other temples of Demigods and then finally he went to Krsna's temple. At that moment when he saw the form of the Lord playing his Flute , he concluded  that this must be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So one of the devotees from the temple, asked him, that how did he come to this conclusion ? So the philosopher replied, I have been wandering in India for many years going to various temples , I went to Shiva Temple he was holding a Trishul and meditating, I went to Durga Temple , I saw she was also holding a sword  , similarly I went to every temple , but saw that the deity at the temple was engaged in some or the other kind of work , but when I saw the deity of Krsna i saw that he was very blissfully standing and playing his Flute with Radharani besides Him. So I understand that this must be the Supreme Personality of Godhead  from who all the other demigods are working , since he is engaged in blissfully playing and doing no work. The analogy is the one who is the proprietor of everything he hasnt got to work, even in practical life we see that if someone is very rich , he has many servants to handle his work and he has nothing to do , but enjoy. 

In all the faiths of the world the same God is mentioned, Some call him Krsna which meana All Attractive, some call him Allah, All powerful and some call him Chirst the saviour. From the point of view of Vaisnava philosophy they all are referring to Krsna. Just like I may be father to my child, husband for my wife and others may call me with my name, but I as a person do not change, even though I am called with different names.  It is the duty of human life to understand the Absolute Truth and love Him, but if we are not even sure who that Absolute Truth is  how can we love Him ? It is required that people take the initiative and inquire seriously in these important topics and try to find the Truth. 

The Age that we are living in is called the Age of Quarrel or Age of Disagreement , scriptures mention that in this age people will be ready to kill each other at slightest provocations and there will be total anarchy, in such difficult times it will be very difficult to understand the purpose of life and to understand God. In such dark times  there is one ray of hope , as per the scriptures by in this age of Kali even though it is tainted with so many faults one who sincerely and with a pure heart chants the holy names of God Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, will attain all perfection and will be liberated . 

kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-sańgaḥ paraḿ vrajet

"My dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom."

Security ...

Security is one of the most important aspects in human nature. Everyone is looking for some Security in terms of job, permanent place, feeling safe in an environment etc. Nobody wants to be un secure and always wanting to be in danger. This aspect of security is natural to a living soul as we are parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and hence our nature is to be eternal. Question of Security comes into picture when we are afraid that what we have will be lost or when we have an experience of such a thing where something dear was lost. For example the body, if someone threatens to harm or kill the body we become very much on guard and try to take all the measures to secure it from harm, since everyone loves his or her body. Similarly when there seems to be some danger to the near and dear ones with whom we associate on daily basis, we become morose and try to protect them.




As per the Vedic literatures, this feeling of fearfulness and this thought of protecting against this fear i.e. security is mainly because of our false identification with the body. From the Vedic literature, especially Bhagavad-Gita we get the information that every living entity is a spirit soul, eternal, full of knowledge and always enjoying by constitution. It is due to our contact with the material energy which is temporary, full of ignorance and always miserable; we have this feeling of fearfulness and with this experience going on from ages we worry about security. Everyone has experience that material things are taken away which cause pain and that fear of that pain causes us to act in so many ways by which we try to adjust things around us so that we can feel secured in every sense. From practical experience everyone knows that this never happens. One may have a feeling of security for some time, but that fear of loosing always remains. Since we are identifying with a temporary body which is perishable, we always have fear of loosing it, and in order to free ourselves from this fear we create an association around us of friends, relatives etc, and feel secure in their company. This is called illusion or maya as per the Vedic literatures. Since we are creating a field of illusion around us by thinking that our friends, family etc will help us from the fear of loosing our body or the things which we most cherish. It is like, one blind man takes the help of another blind man to cross the road and he thinks that he is going in the right direction. This is exactly what we are doing; all the people around us are identifying with the temporary material body and fearing. With the company of other such people we can feel secured falsely for a while but that illusion will soon be broken in the form death either our death or death of near and dear ones.



Vedic Literature instructs the living entity to wake up from this ignorance, tamaso ma jyotir gamaya and move towards enlightenment. Enlightenment means knowing what we are and what is the purpose of our existence in this temporary material realm, knowledge about the difference between matter and spirit and ultimately knowing our constitutional position with respect to the Supreme Spirit. Knowledge and practical application of all the above mentioned things will free a living entity from the false conception of the body and will take him to a stage of spiritual understanding. With this spiritual understanding, one will not fall into false attachments in this material world and will not “hope against hope” to find answers to his or her miseries. Only security for a living entity in this material world is to come to the stage of self realization and identify its relation with the Supreme Soul and act in that relationship, since that is the original nature of the soul. Due to our forgetfulness of this relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna we are always fearful and trying to adjust material things in the name of security , which will only lead to more frustrations, since the platform ( i.e. material body) on which we are trying to adjust things itself is wrong. In this age of Kali Vedas recommend only one way to achieve this knowledge and feel eternally secure, i.e. chanting the holy names of the Lord, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. So please chant and be happy.