⚜️Why is eating with hands emphasised in Vedic Hindu traditions?⚜️
🌺Eating with bare hand is a traditional Indian culture, which people still follow.🌺
Eating is a mindful process since the sensory organs like touch and taste are involved.
🌺Eating with bare hand is a traditional Indian culture, which people still follow.🌺
Eating is a mindful process since the sensory organs like touch and taste are involved.
Fingertips are used to feel the temperature and texture of our food. Nerves at our fingertips send a signal to our brain, and the brain activates the human body’s digestive system and further improves the digestion process.
In practice, a lot of Hindu sit down on the floor in comfortable clothes and eat in a big banana leaf or Saili leaf. This process activates your senses and makes you enjoy your meal.
Eating with hand is a mindful eating. Imagine eating roti with a spoon and dosa with a fork.
Is eating with your hand “unhygienic”?
The Sun, offering life energy to entire creation, without taking anything in return is regarded as one of..
Is eating with your hand “unhygienic”?
The Sun, offering life energy to entire creation, without taking anything in return is regarded as one of..
..the Gods and so on with other natural phenomenon. Human birth is considered as divine and so is the human body. The core values in Indian culture is that all ancient Indian scriptures pay high regard to physical body.
It is regarded as a vehicle to carry mind along with its emotions to reach the destination – the godliness
Washing hands before eating is a habit of everybody. Indian tradition follows hygiene and cleanliness during dining.
Washing hands before eating is a habit of everybody. Indian tradition follows hygiene and cleanliness during dining.
The hand once used by a person to consume their food is not used to serve or to share because that is treated as ‘jootha’ meaning contamination and treated as an unhygienic way of eating.
Significance of eating with hands:
According to the ancient theory, all five fingers of our hand has its own spiritual significance and it symbolizes the 5 elements of nature.
Thumb - Fire
Index finger- Air
Middle finger- Space
Ring finger- Earth
Little finger- Water
According to the ancient theory, all five fingers of our hand has its own spiritual significance and it symbolizes the 5 elements of nature.
Thumb - Fire
Index finger- Air
Middle finger- Space
Ring finger- Earth
Little finger- Water
Apart from those theories, it was proved that using hand while eating improves the healthy digestion of food.These are essential to digest and balance the energy in our body. It is the same hands we use to pray, greet using namaste.
The principle of pancha pranas have great role in the values in Indian culture and tradition Our palms and fingers are protected by a bacteria called Normal Flora. Normal Flora protects our skin from harmful microbes. Hence your hand is safe to use.
Ancient Indian culture is rich with customs and traditions that makes the life enriched with principles and values. Sanatan Vedic Hindu philosophy, every action & activity in our routine is seen as divine.
Values in Indian culture teaches us to see divinity in everything.
Values in Indian culture teaches us to see divinity in everything.
Walking itself is treated as salutation to earth . Every action in Hinduism and ancient Indian traditions is backed with scientific or a moral reason.
“Annam” or food we eat is respected before it is consumed.
“Annam” or food we eat is respected before it is consumed.
In the 15th chapter of Bhagavad Gita, even food we consume is considered as Brahman, the divine. We all know that once our body too will join the earth along with soil! Values in Indian culture teaches us to treat food as the divine that sustains life in the body.
According to Vedas, hands are considered to be the most valuable organs in human body.
Most of the Vedic practices are performed with the help of right hand.
Ayurveda suggests lot of different combination of food items and ingredients to help digestion.
Most of the Vedic practices are performed with the help of right hand.
Ayurveda suggests lot of different combination of food items and ingredients to help digestion.
According to Ayurveda, the tips of fingers where the nerves end is believed to help the digestion if you consume food with hands. Psychologically also, the taste of the food can be sensed more if eaten using the hands than using any other utensil like spoon or fork.
Just with the touch, our body can easily make out if the food is hot to consume. We will also sense if it can create stomach problems by disturbing the digestive system. Instead of tasting the food with a spoon, taste with tongue and then eating with hands is always recommended.
If you look at the entire creation, no living being uses anything a like spoon or fork to eat food.
Mindfulness is one of the key benefits of practicing several customs and traditions explained in the ancient Indian scriptures.
Mindfulness is one of the key benefits of practicing several customs and traditions explained in the ancient Indian scriptures.
It is the practice of values in Indian culture and tradition. This is applicable even while having food. If we eat using our hands, it will help to achieve mindfulness. Especially chewing and swallowing, can happen with awareness and mindfulness.
It is not only beneficial for the mind, but also for the body. Eating mechanically will certainly affect the body by putting on weight, creating indigestion, etc. This will affect also the bowel movement leading to lethargy.
So, it is not just about eating the food, but eating with awareness.
Our ancient scriptures, philosophies have elaborated the values in Indian culture, even in the case of a minute aspect like eating food.
Jayatu Sanatan🙏🌺
Our ancient scriptures, philosophies have elaborated the values in Indian culture, even in the case of a minute aspect like eating food.
Jayatu Sanatan🙏🌺
Courtesy: Vedic Wisdom UK
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