Questions About Offering Food

Hare Krishna to all!
When one offers food to Krishna, as I understand it, that person, after it is offered, eats the reminents of the offered food.

1. How does Krishna take the food?
2. Which parts are the reminents?
3. How much of the food is left for the offerer?

Thank you.
-Cody

harr0002's picture

offering food

Hare Krishna, Please tell the correct way of offering food to the lord before eating.

Thank you
Hare Krishna

Radhikesh's picture

Krishna is Complete

Hare Krishna. Krishna takes the complete offering by glancing at the food. All his senses can do the function of the other senses. We can only eat with our mouth, tasting food with our tongue and so on. But Krishna can eat with His eyes.

The entire offering done to Krishna are the remnants.

How so? Because Krishna is the complete whole that even though He eats the complete offering, the complete offering is left for the devotees. Just like so many complete wholes emanate from Krishna - like the universe, the jivas and so on, Krishna still remains the complete balance. In the field of mathematics, when you take away away infinity from infinity, infinity still remains. In the spiritual world 1 - 1 = 1.

Radhikesh das

KAUFFMAN's picture

good explanation

Hare Krishna!
Thank you for such a clear explanation!
YS,

Josh K.