"Do not Reject Food, That is our Duty, What is Food?, It is Anna Lakshmi."

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1. A vow which the worshipper is to take:

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"Should not censure Food", and Should not Reject any Food"

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that comes to the table before you because it is not tasty.

 

 

2. Whatever, that comes to the table, he must be able to consume without making faces or protesting against that food. This will be respecting and revering food.

 

3. Water that is drunk is digested by the digestive 'fire' in our system. Therefore, water is regarded as food and fire is regarded as the consumer of food. Water can also be considered as food in the sense that the food grains grow with water. Heat in a living body is necessary for the food to be digested, and hence the body heat can be considered as the eater of water.

 

4. Fire is fixed in water:--- This is true in the sense we know, that the 'digestive-fire' gets kindled and leaps to consume the food taken in when we drink water an hour or so after meals. In this sense, we can say fire is fixed in water, inasmuch as supplying water to the digestive system its efficiency increases.

 

5. Water is fixed in fire:--- Again, whenever the heat of the body increases, immediately we find water, in the form of perspiration, streaming out as if water is fixed in the fire. Anything consumed by the fire is always accompanied by moisture--- let it be the driest of fuel that you can find. Completely dehydrated things cannot be burnt --- the can only be charred.

 

6. Altogether teacher wants to emphasise in another striking analogy how the eater and the eaten, the experiencer and the experienced are interchangeable and, therefore, in fact, they are both virtually one and the same. The relationship between the subject and the object is clearly shown to be one and the same. 

 

7. When a glass rod is put at an angle in a trough half-full of water, we find through refraction, half of the rod straight and the other half bent at an angle to it. This ugly delusion is because of the medium through which we are looking at the object.

 

8. similarly, the subject and the object, though they are one and the same, the world of objects seems to be different from the subject because of the refraction that is caused by the medium of the mind and intellect through which we are experiencing the objects.  

 

9. Taittiriya Upanishad: Chapter-3, Section-8, Slokam-1. (Bhrgu Valli-Here Bhrgu the son learns from his father Varuna)

 

10. Present day Bharatham Food wastage is without any control in weddings, hotels, and many social gatherings. Our politicians and ministers, are the leaders in this action, even at homes we waste and throw food when we do not find food tasty. The Upanishad was recited many many years before by the Rishies, and they warn us knowing the present well in advance!!!

 
 
 
 
 

 

              

 

 

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