Langar
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The free communal meal distributed at a pilgrimage site for the needy, ascetics, and monks — a capable householder should avoid consuming it, since it is sometimes used by others to disburse karmic liabilities or negative energies; only Prasad dedicated directly to the deity should be eaten.
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What should never be picked up, removed, or consumed at a pilgrimage site, and why?
Never pick up discarded coins, currency, jewelry, malas, or coconuts along a pilgrimage path — people often transfer their afflictions onto objects before discarding them — and a capable householder shouldn't eat Langar, remove Shivlingas or Shaligrams without authorization, or pluck fruit and flowers from unknown trees on a Parikrama path.
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