Shloka : 194 - 195

पुमानेव भवेद्यत्र पङ्कवान्नपरिवेषण: ।

ईक्षणादि भवेन्नैव यत्र स्त्रीणां च सर्वथा ॥ 194 ॥

અને જે ગૃહસ્થના ઘરને વિષે, રાંધેલ અન્નનો પીરસનારો પુરુષ જ હોય, તથા સ્ત્રીઓનો દર્શનાદિક પ્રસંગ કોઈ રીતે થાય એમ ન હોય ॥ 194 ॥

And in a house of a Grihastha, where a man serves the cooked food and there is no possibility of the contact of a woman, even through sight or by any other means. || 194 ||

तत्र गृहिगृहे भोक्तुं गन्तव्यं साधुभिर्मम ।

अन्यथाऽऽमान्नमर्थित्वा पाक: कार्य: स्वयं च तै: ॥ 195 ॥

તેવી રીતનું જે ગૃહસ્થનું ઘર તે પ્રત્યે અમારા સાધુ તેમણે જમવા જવું; અને એ કહ્યું તેવું ન હોય તો, કાચું અન્ન માગીને પોતાના હાથે રસોઈ કરવી ને ભગવાનને નૈવેદ્ય ધરીને જમવું. ॥ 195 ॥

My saints should visit such types of house of a Grihastha to have cooked food; otherwise they should accept the raw food materials and cook the food themselves and offer the cooked food to God and then have food. || 195 ||

Commentary

In a house of a Grihastha, where a man is there to serve the cooked food and where there is no possibility to see a woman or to hear the words spoken by a woman, such houses should be visit­ed by the saints of Shri Hari to accept the cooked food; and they should always visit a house in a group of minimum five Tyagis. They should perform all the acts for the sake of God, therefore they should never have food etc. without offering them to God. If the idol of Shri Harikrishna Mahaprabhu is not available in a Grihastha’s house, then they should carry their own worshipping idol, offer Him the food and then have food. And if there is an idol of God at the place of a Grihastha, they should accept the raw materials from the Grihastha in advance cook the food themselves, and offer the cooked food to their own worship­ping idol. After that the group of Tyagis should visit the place of a Grihastha devotee of Shri Hari to have food. Because if they do not offer food to their own worshipping idol, their code of conduct to serve their worshipping idol is leftout, in case they are fasting on a festival day, even then they should offer food to God.

And if it is not convenient as explained above, they should accept the raw materials and cook the food at their place of stay. If it is not convenient to cook by themselves, they should ask a religious and pious Brahmin to cook food, offer the cooked food to God and the remaining offerings should be offered to Guru. They should mix them in a wooden bowl, add water and have food.

Moreover, if someone invites to have food and if it is forbidden to eat the food cooked by them, then the Tyagis should get the raw materials supplied to their Ashram or they can go to their house, cook the food themselves or get it cooked by some pious, religious Brahmin and then have it after offering to their worshipping idol.