"One should never eat within the kitchen; there is ample place to eat so why eat in the kitchen? Kitchen should be considered as good
as the Lord's room and nobody should wear shoes in the kitchen, smelling
and tasting of food prepared for the Lord should never be done and talking
within the kitchen should be only what is necessary for preparing the prasada, or about the Lord, and dirty dishes (those taken from the kitchen and eaten from) should not be brought back into the kitchen but if there is no other place to wash them, then they should be put into sink and washed immediately.
The hands should always be washed when preparing prasada, and in this way,
everything will be prepared very cleanly and purely. What is the difficulty
in enforcing these simple rules? They are rules, and they are simple rules,
and must be followed. One must be prepared to follow the rules for Krishna.
Otherwise where is the proof he loves Krishna? And they are not very difficult
to follow."
........Srila Prabhupada letter to Aniruddha, 16th June 1968 |
