Srila Prabhupada, Los Angeles, February 17, 1969: You take nice food. Krishna has given nice food. Fruits, grains, milk, you can prepare hundreds and thousands of preparations nice with these foodgrains and we are doing that. Our purpose for inviting you in the love feast is that: replace Krishna prasada with your all nonsense foodstuff.
They are not healthy. These are healthy food. Healthy food. Palatable, healthy food. So, eat Krishna prasada, nice prasada. If your tongue wants some nice palatable dishes we can supply you hundreds, thousands, offered to Krishna. Samosa and this sweet ball, rasagulla, so many things we can supply. You are not prohibited.
But don’t take too much. “Oh, it is very palatable, let me take one dozen of rasagulla.” No, don’t take that. Then that is not good. That is greediness. You should simply take so much as will keep your body fit, that’s all. You should sleep so much as will keep your body fit, that’s all.
Nothing more. Yuktahara viharasya yogo bhavati siddha. This is called yukta. We should eat simply for keeping healthy condition. We shall sleep simply for keeping healthy condition. But if you can reduce, that’s nice. But not at the risk of becoming sick.
Because in the beginning, because we are accustomed to eat voraciously, so don’t try to eat less artificially. You eat. But try to minimize. Therefore there are prescription of fasting. At least two compulsory fastings in a month. And there are other fasting days.
The more you can reduce your sleep and eating, you keep good health, especially for spiritual purposes. But not artificially. Not artificially. But when you advance, naturally you’ll not feel, just like Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. There are examples.
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