Prasad is what you get by being in contact with a luminous source. You are close to the Bhagavad Gita, there are insights, you start living those insights, others look at you and see something special, something luminous, and feel inspired — that is prasad. There is a certain realization, and you want to share it with everybody — that is prasad. Your own inner illumination is prasad.
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Questioner: I want to ask one thing, doing pooja and giving prasadam.
Acharya Prashant: Pooja is a wonderful thing. God too is the highest if God is truth. If by God we mean the highest, then God has to be the absolute truth and not a figure of imagination, not a character in a storybook, right? So holding God as sacred is indeed wonderful, provided God represents the truth to you. Otherwise, mostly we turn God into some fictional character in our fairy tales, and then God means nothing. In fact, the concept of God may become dangerous, divisive, all kinds of things.
Pooja is also the same thing. To really worship, one must know the sacred, and only the sacred must be worshipped.
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