Text 28] The Lord’s Pastimes Out of Vrndavana 117
annam coru-rasam tebhyo
dattva bhagavad-arpanam
go-viprarthasavah surah
pranemur bhuvi murdhabhih

annam—foodstuff; ca—also; uru-rasam—highly delicious; tebhyah—unto
the brahmanas; dattva—after supplying; bhagavat-arpanam— which was first
offered to the Personality of Godhead; go—cow;vipra—brahmanas; artha—
purpose; asavah—purpose of living; surah—all the valiant ksatriyas;
pranemuh—offered obeisances; bhuvi—touching the ground; murdhabhih—
with their heads.

TRANSLATION

Thereafter they offered the brahmanas highly delicious foodstuffs
which were first offered to the Personality of Godhead, and they
offered their respectful obeisances by touching their heads to the ground.
They lived perfectly by protecting the cows and the brahmanas.

PURPORT

The behavior exhibited by the descendants of Yadu in the pilgrimage
site of Prabhasa was highly cultured and exactly to the point of human
perfection. The perfection of human life is attained by following three
principles of civilization: protecting the cows, maintaining the brahminical
culture and, above all, becoming a pure devotee of the Lord. Without
becoming a devotee of the Lord, one cannot perfect one’s human life.
The perfection of human life is to be elevated to the spiritual world,
where there is no birth, no death, no diseases and no old age. That is the
highest perfectional aim of human life. Without this aim, any amount of
material advancement in so-called comforts can only bring the defeat of
the human form of life.

Brahmanas and Vaisnavas do not accept any foodstuff which is not first
offered to the Personality of Godhead. Foodstuff offered to the Lord is
accepted by the devotees as the mercy of the Lord. After all, the Lord
supplies all kinds of foodstuff, both to the human being and to other
animals. A human being must be conscious of the fact that all foodstuffs,
namely grains, vegetables, milk, water, etc.—the prime necessities of life—
are supplied by the Lord for mankind, and such foodstuffs cannot be
manufactured by any scientist or materialist in a laboratory or factory
established by human effort. The intelligent class of men are called
brahmanas, and those who have realized the Absolute Truth in His supreme
personal feature are called Vaisnavas. But both of them accept foodstuffs
which are the remnants of sacrifice. Sacrifice is ultimately meant to satisfy
