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.
What is the remedy when a marakesh Shukra dasha is running and health is bad?
A listener says the Shukra dasha is running, that Shukra is the marakesh, and that health is very bad. He says: at the very least, give daan on the day of Friday. And if nothing else, do a bhandara. There will be no shortage of money for the bhandara — how much money is needed? Not much, brother, ten rupees. For ten rupees buy sugar boora, or bring a packet, a hundred grams of sugar, and every Friday take it to such a place and put it out for the ants, where they will be safe and nobody will crush them.
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