Food brings people together, allows human beings to feel satisfied
and comfortable, connects us with the earth and provides us with health. You
are what you eat. Eating should be regarded as a sacred act. In an orthodox
Hindu home, food is offered to the family deity first and is then consumed as
prasad or offering with the diety’s blessing. There is a basic similarity
between the rituals observed in offering food to the deity and those in eating
oneself. In both cases, food is offered as an oblation to the five pranas which
are regarded as five fires. Even if one does not follow this ritualistic
concept, one should make eating a fully conscious and peaceful act. Hurry,
worry, anger, distractions and chattering should be avoided while eating.
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