Questions And Answers: Prasāda and Bhoga / Onion and Garlic

When a person lives with their family who are non-devotees, they cook with onion and garlic and they expect you to eat that food, is it okay to offer to Kṛṣṇa and have it after? How can I make it less sinful?
Questioner: Kusum Bhatt, UK.
Date: 2022-01-05
Jayapatākā Swami: Kusum, please accept my blessings.
Onion and garlic are not offerable to any Deities,
what to speak of Viṣṇu Deity, even Drugā, Śiva, Gaṇeśa, Kartikeya,
they don’t accept onion and garlic.
Also, recently I saw in the internet there was some article, how onion and garlic are bad
according to the material scientists.
You could say in this Dāmodara month or any month for that matter that you only take kṛṣṇa-prasāda
and that you cannot offer onion and garlic to Kṛṣṇa.
So they could make special offering to Kṛṣṇa without onion and garlic
and you can take that.
I don’t know what it takes to convince your parents.
Onion and garlic are not suitable to be eaten,
cannot really offer it to Kṛṣṇa.
Someone was saying that maybe garlic under some doctor’s recommendation, it can be taken.
Even then we cannot offer it to Kṛṣṇa.
Just as a medicine
we say Śrī Viṣṇu three times
and take it.
Unless you have high blood pressure or something,
doctors say that we should take garlic.
And I don’t see any other reason to take it.
I hope you can solve this problem.
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