What is the meaning behind some rituals and mantras that we follow before meals?🔗

All those rituals have a meaning. When you take the water in your hands and rotate it above the food, you increase the positive energy of the food. But now, we do all this totally in unawareness.

The meaning is lost, only the ritual remains!

The mantra we chant, Brahmaarpanam, means that the food, the process of eating, and the eater – all three are Brahman, God. Just as we make offerings to the sacrificial fire in a yaga, we make this offering of food to our inner fire, the digestive fire, jataraagni. Eating is compared to a sacred religious rite.