Om gurudevaia vidmahi parabrahmane dhimahe, tanno guruh prachodaiat.



Aim gurave namah.

Aim gurudevaia vidmahe,

krishna—anandaia dhīmahi,

tan no guroh prachodáiāt.





śrī—bhaktivedānta—rāma—kṛṣṇānandāya svāmine

kṛpāmbhodhir agādhāya namaste tattva—darśine



prāmāṇikair yukti—yuktair dharmam sanātanam sadā

viśuddham bhāṣte yas tu guru—varyāya te namaḥ





samādhau nitya—yuktāyā—vadhuta—veśa—dhāriṇe

divya—prema—nimagnāya brahmānandāāa te namaḥ





namas te guru—daksāya hṛṣkeśa—sthitāya vai

gaṅgā—tata—nivāsāya rāmji—bābābhidhāya ca

OMANNAPURNE, SADAPURNESHANKARA PRANA BALLAVEGYANA VAIRAGYA SIDDHARTAMBHIKSHAM DEHI CHA PARVATI

MATA CHA PARVATI DEVIPITA DEVO MAHESHWARABANDHAVA SHIVA BHAKTAHASWADESHO BHUVANATRAYAM

HARI OM, TAT SATLOKA SAMASTHAA SUKHINO BHAVANTU

OM, BELOVED MOTHER NATURE, YOU ARE HERE ON OUR TABLE AS FOOD. YOU ARE ENDLESSLY BOUNTIFUL, BENEFACTRESS OF ALL. GRANT US HEALTH AND STRENGTH, WISDOM AND DISPASSION, AND HELP US SHARE THIS WITH ONE AND ALL.

PARVATI IS MY MOTHER; MY FATHER IS THE LORD OF ALL. ALL CREATION IS MY FAMILY, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS MY HOME.

I OFFER THIS UNTO OM, THAT TRUTH WHICH IS UNIVERSAL. MAY THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE BE FILLED WITH PEACE AND JOY, LOVE AND LIGHT.

Lord have the goodness of blessing us, have the goodness of blessing these gifts and remnants of your goodness that we are about to take...

Praying before taking prasadam makes us conscious of the many blessings that we enjoy in life and prepare the mind to partake of the food in a meditative atmosphere, and not only as an opportunity to satisfy the impulse of hunger.

The traditional hindu prayer for the food is to chant the following three verses of the Bhagavad Gita (4:24, 9:27 and 15:14), followed by one verse from Sannyas Gita. A more extensive from consists of chanting all the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.

Brahmārpaṇam brahma—havir

brahmāgnāu brahmaṇā hutam

brahmaiva tena gantavyam

brahmakarmasamādhinā

Aham vaiśvānaro bhūtvā

prāṇinām deham—āśritaḥ

prāṇāpānasamāyuktaḥ

pacāmy—annam caturvidham

Yat karoṣi yad—aśnāsi

yaj—juhoṣi dadāsi yat

yat tapasyasi kaunteya

tat kuruṣva madarpaṇam

Harir—dātā harir—bhoktā

harir—annam prajāpatiḥ

hariḥ sarva śarīreṣu

bhuṅkte bhojayate hariḥ

Brahman is the offering, Brahman is the oblation

Let Bhaham be poured into the fire of Brahman

To Brahman must reach anyone who always sees

Brahman in action.

Having transformed himself to the digestive fire of all men, He inhabited the body of all living beings and the universe with prana and apana, digesting the four classes of food.

Anything you do, anything you eat, anything you offer, anything you give, all the austerities you perform, Arjuna, do it as an offering to Me.

Hari is the giver, the enjoyer

Hari is the enjoyment

Hari is in all the bodies,

Hari is the one who eats and the one who nourishes