![]() They fail because they continue to eat food that is not offered to Krishna. This is a very common reason why aspiring devotees of Lord Krishna fail to become Krishna conscious. Therefore even if one is a strict vegetarian it will be completely impossible for him to become Krishna conscious unless he restricts his eating to only food that has been offered to in sacrifice ( yajna). Krishna consciousness is only possible for those who are not sinful so Krishna consciousness is not possible for one who eats sin. ![]() And the result of eating sin is that one becomes sinful. So we can see unless the food is first ‘offed for sacrifice’ the person who eats that food is only eating sin. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin. The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. In the Bhagavad-gita 3.13 Lord Krishna says: So simply becoming a vegetarian is not very helpful in spiritual life. Even if one becomes a vegetarian eating vegetarian food is still sinful and will still cause karmic reactions and will still bind the person eating it to take birth in the material world over and over and over again and suffer perpetually. There is a common misunderstanding that devotees of Krishna are vegetarians. By Madhudvisa dasa 187 How to offer food to Krishna? ![]()
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