Before we eat, it is sacred to pause for a moment.
Close the eyes, take a soft breath, and feel gratitude.
Every food on your plate has travelled a long journey from soil, sun, rain, farmers, transporters, sellers, cooks… many hands, many efforts, many lives.
Blessing the food is a way of honouring this entire chain of life.
In many traditions, this moment is powerful.
Muslims say Bismillah.
Hindus chant Brahmaarpanam.
Others simply say “Thank you.”
Different words, one purpose — to align the mind, body, and inner awareness before receiving food.
What Exactly Is Brahmaarpanam?
Brahmaarpanam is an ancient Sanskrit mantra recited before meals.
It means:
“This food, this act of eating, the eater, and the energy that digests —
all are offerings to the Divine.”
all are offerings to the Divine.”
Why is this powerful?
Because it shifts your mindset from “I am eating” to
“I am receiving divine nourishment.”
It turns food into spiritual fuel.
It makes the act of eating a conscious, sacred ritual rather than a mechanical habit.
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What Does Blessing the Food Actually Do?
Blessing the food does not remove physical poison.
Energy can purify vibration, calm the mind, and raise the frequency but it cannot neutralize harmful chemicals or toxins already present.
If someone intentionally puts poison:
- your intuition may warn you,
- your energy may feel disturbed,
- your inner sense may resist the food…
- your intuition may warn you,
- your energy may feel disturbed,
- your inner sense may resist the food…
…but the poison itself does not disappear through energizing.
So the correct understanding is:
1. Energy cleanses vibration, not chemicals.
2. Intuition protects you, not the energizing process.
3. Always trust your inner warning before eating anything.
Then What Is the Real Purpose of Blessing?
When we bless our food or send light to it, we are not changing the physical substance.
What we are changing is ourselves.
Blessing food activates the connection between your Higher Self and your instincts.
Your awareness becomes sharper.
Your inner sensing becomes stronger.
So if something is wrong with the food, your Higher Self will naturally warn you.
You may feel:
- sudden hesitation
- discomfort
- unusual smell or taste
- a strange disturbance in energy
- sudden loss of appetite
- a clear inner message: “Don’t eat this.”
That is your protection.
Only in situations where a major karmic cycle must be completed — a “big karmic file” — your Higher Self may not block the experience.
Even then, the soul knows what it is doing and guides you through it.
So the True Function of Blessing Food Is:
- to awaken your inner protection
- to strengthen intuition
- to open your Higher Self’s guidance
- to receive food with awareness, not unconsciousness
Blessing does not change the food.
It changes you, the one eating.
It changes you, the one eating.
A Simple Practice Before Every Meal
- Pause for a moment.
- Say gratitude to everyone and everything that brought the food to your plate.
- Chant Brahmaarpanam (or any prayer of your faith).
- Visualize the food as light even if it is vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
- See it becoming pure, loving, and nourishing.
- As you eat, feel the oneness between your body, the food, and the Divine.
When you embrace your food with love, oneness, and gratitude, your inner protection awakens,
your vibration rises, and the entire act of eating becomes a spiritual experience.
When you eat with awareness, every meal becomes a prayer.
When you eat with awareness, every meal becomes a prayer.
🌿 With gratitude to Master Sathia & Suma Harasu for their wisdom and inspiration that made this post possible
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