Feasts and parties; involve giving or receiving food, with or without various paraphernalia. They quench hunger and thirst and satisfy taste buds, besides giving pleasure of socialization and entertainment. But usually; these are associated with superiority complex, inferiority complexes; hollow euphoria, deceptive glamour and false glitter; usually followed by emptiness and depression!

What is PRASAD?

When an individual spends his life in the process of self realization and self expression; he becomes one with the core of universe and catalyzes the same process in millions of others; throughout his life and even after leaving his/her body; through centuries.

The place where the particular saint or yogi spends his life becomes a place of pilgrimage. The pilgrims get empowered in the process of self realization and self expression by going to these places.

We find in India; thousands of places of pilgrimage; where a saint, yogi, rishi, maharshi or a mahatma etc has spent life; in the process of self realization and self expression. These places of pilgrimage have one feature in common viz. the distribution PRASAD at subsidized price or free of cost.

The food; that is cooked to offer the particular saint or yogi (cosmic consciousness) is PRASAD. Such food is in a way; �charged� with the benevolence of the saint to catalyze the process of self realization and self expression i.e. individual and universal blossoming!

This is why; thousands of us; consider themselves fortunate and privileged in participation of making such prasad available to pilgrims and in eating it themselves! Thus thousands of people participate in various activities; involved in distribution of PRASAD such as funding, cleaning, cooking, serving and also cleaning the vessels!

One such place of pilgrimage is Gondavale; in Maan taluka of Satara district; in Maharashtra state in India. Thousands of visitors whether tourists or devotees; are served PRASAD; in the form of freshly prepared cow butter with sugar, breakfast, lunch and dinner; every day; without charging any money what so ever.

Can we globalize the culture of self realization through NAMASMARAN and distribution of PRASAD? The world needs it. But more than that; we need it for ourselves. We need it for our own satisfaction of creating a healthy environment around ourselves; and our generations to come.