If we do not give food to our
guests, our progeny and wealth would be destroyed. If you make a guest wait out
side and take meals in side, it is equivalent to eating beef.
Brahmins should do Parishechana
(pouring little water round the meals plate or leaf three times with Mantras),
taking Abochana (drinking very little quantity of water with Mantra) , taking
small quantities of rice seven times with mantra, touch the heart with the
finger wash with water poured on the left side of the leaf, take meals and then
take quantity of water with mantra.
Many people take some quantity of water in hand, pour it three times round the leaf, pour little drop on the left side and take the remaining water as Abochana. This is extremely wrong.
For each of the actions , we have
take water afresh. When we are taking meals with others , it is important that
we take the Abochana water together. When little of this water on the meals in
day time it is considered as equivalent to honey drops and when done at night
it is equivalent o drinking alcohol. Half the Abochana water should be taken in
and the other half poured on left side of the leaf with the mantra.
“Rourave apunya nilaye padmarpuda nivasinam,
Artheenaam Udhakam datham Akshayyam upathishtathu.”
If we do not get pure water do Aachamana , recite Pranava (Om) touch the right ear by hands three times. This is called Srothra Aachamana. If we have water we should not do like this.
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