The New World Order

The modern day world civilization is crying and dying. Having lost its soul it is gradually withering away into oblivion. But all is not hopeless. A new world order, a new enlightened culture is arising to bring peace and prosperity to everyone in all corners of the globe. It is the revival of the original Vedic culture, which thrived for millions and millions of years on this planet before the advent of the age of Kali 5,000 years ago. Those who are well-informed are now resituating themselves in the resurgence of that most sublime Vedic culture, which is now being manifested all over the world in the form of the Krishna consciousness movement.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Bhagavad-gita Lecture in Pune, India

Sankarshan Das Bhagavad-gita Lecture in Pune, India

Sankarshan Das Bhagavad-gita Lecture in Pune

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Chocolate is Avoided?

I have one question in my mind:

Why are the initiated disciples and the neophytes who trying to qualify themselves for initiation prohibited from eating chocolate and ice cream?

Your servant,

Kalyan

Answer: Not Favorable for Krishna Consciousness

Those who are serious to get out of the cycle of birth and death by going back to home, back to Godhead in this very lifetime strictly follow the regulative principles of freedom for the purification of their consciousness. In this regard there are certainly dietary restrictions for sanctifying the consciousness and empowering the devotee to absorb his mind 24 hours daily in transcendental meditation on Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Because chocolate contains caffeine, an intoxicant, therefore devotees do not take it. Intoxicants are avoided because they make it difficult to keep the mind fixed on Krishna.

Another point is that when we eat we are affected by the consciousness of the person who prepared the food. Therefore our principle is to only eat foods prepared by devotees. If we eat foods prepared by nondevotees, this will have a negative effect on our consciousness. And if we eat foods prepared by devotees, this will have an uplifting purifying effect on our consciousness.

Chocolate ice cream should be avoided because it contains chocolate. But other flavors of ice cream can be offered to Krishna and taken as prasadam by the devotees if the ice cream is made by devotees. Ice cream prepared by non-devotees should be avoided so that we are not affected by their material consciousness and also for the reason that the non-devotees often put eggs into ice cream.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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