Akala-vrtyu-haranam; sarva-vyadhi-vinasanam
visnoh padodakam pitva; sirasa dharayamy aham
“Having drunk the nectar from the lotus feet of Lord Vishnu, which destroys all diseases and takes away the chance of dying untimely, I hold the water on my head.”
"Caranamrta is obtained in the morning while the Lord is being washed before dressing. Scented with perfumes and flowers, the water comes gliding down through His lotus feet and is collected and mixed with yogurt. In this way this caranamrta not only becomes very tastefully flavored, but also has tremendous spiritual value. As described in Padma Purana, even a person who has never been able to give in charity, who has never been able to perform a great sacrifice, who has never been able to study the Vedas, who has never been able to worship the Lord - or, in other words, even one who has never done any pious activities - will become eligible to enter into the kingdom of God if he simply drinks the caranamrta which is kept in the temple. In the temple it is the custom that caranamrta be kept in a big pot. The devotees who come to visit and offer respects to the Deity take three drops of caranamrta very submissively and feel themselves happy in transcendental bliss." --NOD9
na rogasya bhayancaiva nasti vighna krtam bhayam
na dusta naiva ghoraksah svapadottha bhayam na hi
grahah pidam na kurvanti caura nasyanti darunah
kim tasya tirtha gamane devarsinam ca darsane
yasya padodakam murdhni salagrama silodbhavam
prito bhavati martandah prito bhavati kesavah
brahma bhavati su pritah prito bhavati sankarah
"One who drinks caranamrta (water emanated from washing the body of the Lord) he becomes free from all kinds of diseases, and all kinds of obstacles and the fear of ferocious cobras and ferocious beasts. He does not have the eyes of bad planets upon him. He becomes free from the fear of theft. What is the need for him to go to the places of pilgrimage, seeing the demigods and great sages (if he has taken the water which has washed the body of the Supreme Lord)? If he has the water which has washed the salagram sila above his head, the sun, Kesava, Lord Brahma, Sankara (Lord Siva) become greatly happy with him" -Hari-bhakti-vilasa 9.42-44, from Padma Purana
apavitra yadannam syat paniyan capi papinam
bhuktva pitva visuddhah syat pitva padodakam hareh
"If someone has eaten impure foods from someone or has drank water left from a great sinner, the sins which are derived from such eating and drinking, can become nullified just by drinking the water which has emanated from the lotus feet of Lord Sri Hari." -Hari-bhakti-vilasa 9.50, from Brahmanda Purana
sadyah phala pradam punyam sarva papa vinasanam
sarva mangala mangalyam sarva duhkha vinasanam
duhsvapna nasanam punyam visnu padodakam subham
sarvopadrava-hantaram sarva vyadhi-vinasanam
"Water which has emanated from the lotus feet of Lord Sri Visnu immediately gives purification, removes all kinds of sins, it is more auspicious than the most auspicious ingredients, it removes all kinds of miseries and bad dreams, it helps one become meritorious, it is all auspicious, it removes all obstacles, and it removes all kinds of diseases from a person." -Hari-bhakti-vilasa 9.57,58
sri visnor vaisnavananca pavanam caranodakam
sarva tirtha mayam pitva kuryad acamanam na hi
"The water which has washed the feet of Lord Visnu and Vaisnavas is equal to all the places of pilgrimage together. After drinking such water, one does not have to take any acamana or to wash his hands or mouth." -Hari-bhakti-vilasa 9.91, from Agastya Samhita
Srila Prabhupada and caranamrta:
"When sick, Srila Prabhupada himself often used to rely upon caranamrta rather than various medicines, which he generally distrusted and never took very seriously. He said his sister Bhavatarini devi dasi, whom we used to call Pisi Ma (auntie), would always simply depend upon the Lord's caranamrta whenever she was sick. Pisi Ma gave her son Madana caranamrta and the boy was cured of cholera as a result of her firm sraddha (faith). Srila Prabhupada praised this faithful practice of hers."
From Padma Purana:
"Previously, in Treta-yuga, there was a sinful brahmana named Sudarsana. He would eat on the day of Lord Hari (Ekadasi) and he would criticize all of the scriptures daily as well as all the people who would fast on the Ekadasi day. He would only think of how to fill his belly. One day in the morning, he died. The Yamadutas came to take him away to Yamaloka. When Yamaraja saw him he asked his secretary to narrate what kinds of sins and merits this person, who had been brought by his messengers, had accumulated. He also said that this person looks like a grievously sinful person.
"The secretary, Citragupta, replied, "O Lord (Yamaraja), he has not done any merits, but has only acquired sins. He even ate on the day of Lord Sri Hari (the Ekadasi day). He even ate on the appearance day of the husband of the goddess of fortune (Janmastami). He is the lowest of all mankind because he ate on the birthday of Lord Sri Krsna, Janmastami, therefore he should be put in the greatest hellish planet for millions of years and at last, he should take birth as a worm in stool.
"Hearing this, the great messengers of Yamaraja took him to the greatest ferocious hell to suffer for the duration of one hundred Manus. After that he was liberated and he was made as a pig in a village and daily he would eat sufficient stool because he had previously eaten on the day of Lord Sri Hari. After that life, he became a crow who would eat mucus. One day, that crow went to the house of a brahmana where a pot of caranamrta was left outside the door and he drank some and became free from all sins. On the same day, he fell in a hunter's net and was killed, and at last he went to the abode of Lord Sri Hari, carried on a palanquin by two swan-like devotees of the Lord. This is the great merit derived from drinking the water which has emanated from washing the two lotus feet of Lord Sri Visnu, which removes all sins. Whoever even listens to this narration about caranamrta, also becomes free from all sins."
tribhih sarasvatam toyam saptahena tu narmadam
sadyah punati gangeyam dasanad eva yamunam
punanti etani toyani snana darsana kirtanaih
punati smaranad eva kalau padodakam hareh
arcitai kotibhir lingair nityam yat kriyate phalam
tat phalam sata sahasram pite padodake hareh
asuci va duracaro maha pataka samyutah
sprstva padodakam visnoh sada sudhyati manavah
"Water from the Narmada purifies after one week, but Ganges water immediately purifies. Just by taking darsan of the Yamuna, one becomes purified. These rivers all purify one by seeing them, bathing in them or by chanting their names, but in Kali-yuga, one becomes purified just by remembering the water which has washed the lotus feet of Lord Sri Hari. Therefore, if someone drinks the water which has washed the lotus feet of Lord Hari, he gets more than 100,000 times more merit than by worshiping ten million Siva lingas. If a person is impure, has unlimited bad habits, or is implicated with previous sins, simply by touching the water which comes from the lotus feet of Lord Visnu, he becomes purified. If somebody at the time of death touches to their head or other parts of the body the water which has washed the lotus feet of Lord Hari, even if he is implicated with millions of sins, he does not go to the hellish planets, the abode of Yamaraja. --Hari-bhakti-vilasa 9.27-30, from Padma Purana