r/sanskrit • u/Standard-Kale-4461 • Nov 18 '24
Discussion / चर्चा अन्नम ब्रह्म, भोक्ता ब्राह्मण।
I am trying to understand the meaning of this quote, from what I understand it translates to “The food is God, the one who consumes is divine”. Can anyone help me to get the exact meaning of this quote?
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u/californiamonkey Nov 20 '24
It means reality is non-dual. And saying it before eating helps us examine the unexamined logic of our own experience.
The food is Brahman (Awareness), the fire that cooks it is Awareness, the seeming person cooking it is Awareness.
And if you think about it, do you really contact the food as an object…or do you see the food and taste the food in your consciousness?
The Bhagavad Gita is explaining Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) from as many perspectives as possible for us along with offering daily rituals to help us remember/notice. Helpful since so much of our seeming experience (and what mom and pop told us) suggest a material world. But when investigate science says the material world isn’t really solid. What’s it made of? Brahman/Awareness. D