Äpani candana pari' parena phula-mÄlÄ
naivedya kÄá¸iyÄ khÄ'na — sandeÅ›a, cÄla, kalÄ
Äpani - Himself; candana - pulp of sandalwood; pari' - smearing over the body; parena - takes; phula-mÄlÄ - the flower garlands; naivedya - offering of food; kÄá¸iyÄ - snatching; khÄ'na - begins to eat; sandeÅ›a - the sweetmeats; cÄla - rice; kalÄ - bananas.
Without the permission of the girls, the Lord would take the sandalwood pulp and smear it on His own body, put the flower garlands on His neck, and snatch and eat all the offerings of sweetmeats, rice and bananas.
According to the system of worship, when something is offered to deities outside one’s home, it is generally not cooked food but raw rice, bananas and sweetmeats. Out of His causeless mercy, the Lord would snatch the offerings from the girls and eat them, admonishing the girls not to worship the demigods but to worship Him. This worship of ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu is recommended in ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam:
kṛṣṇa-varṇaá¹ tviá¹£Äkṛṣṇaá¹ sÄá¹…gopÄá¹…gÄstra-pÄrá¹£adam
yajñaiḥ saá¹…kÄ«rtana-prÄyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ
“One should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead who appears in this Age of Kali with His associates as the Pañca-tattva: the Lord Himself and His associates NityÄnanda Prabhu, ÅšrÄ« Advaita Prabhu, ÅšrÄ« GadÄdhara Prabhu and ÅšrÄ«vÄsa ṬhÄkura. In this age an intelligent person worships the Pañca-tattva by the method of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahÄ-mantra and, if possible, distributing prasÄdam.†Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is introducing this bona fide method of worship in the Western world. Its members are going from village to village and town to town with Deities of Lord Caitanya MahÄprabhu, teaching people how to worship the Lord by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, offering prasÄdam and distributing prasÄdam to people in general.
