Question: I feel that I don't know how to receive prasad [food blessed by the spiritual Master] properly.⁷

Sri Chinmoy: When you come to me for prasad there are two things you should try to do. One thing is to feel utmost humility. From head to foot you should feel that you are all humility. Feel that you are swimming in the sea of humility. The next thing is to imagine your heart, which means receptivity, and feel that it is like an elastic band. If you pull it, it will expand. As soon as you come near me, first become all humility. When I give you prasad, you will receive it with utmost humility. Then immediately feel that your heart has become wider and larger.

It is not just an orange or a banana that I give you, but a living portion of my compassion-light. Prasad is my compassion-light, and inside that compassion-light is the illumining reality. The blessingful, illumining reality is inside my compassion-light. In order to receive the thing that I am offering, you will immediately expand your heart. It has to be received with a wide heart and with utmost humility. This is absolutely the correct way for you and for everybody to receive prasad from me.