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In Hindu rituals, importance is also given
to the meals as given to others. I have got with a new topic today of which you
all may have come across with it while having meals in a feast. While you are
having feast in a ceremony, after finishing meal you are not supposed to get up
from your place before the eldest one gets up. Yes, according to our ancestor’s
ritual, “One must not get up from his place after having food while others are
still having & he has to wait for the eldest one to get up”. Will you agree
with this? Yes, you have to, because there is an actual reason behind it. Let’s
look at it.
Nowadays
each one will have food at their own time. Serving them will become a huge work
for women who have to leave her other work paused. It’s not that easy to serve
everyone at their own time. Regardless of having meal in a systematic manner creates
indigestion in stomach which may ruin your stomach. But if we reckon today’s
life it is bit difficult to have meals from time to time.
Ok,
now let’s go back to older days. In older days everyone used to have food in a
group. Having food from time to time in a group creates unity in a family &
systematic digestion in our stomach. It is said that one should not get up from
his place leaving food while others are having food before the eldest one has
got up. If he does, then the food in all the leaves get tainted (taint of spit).
If there is urgent need to get up, we have to draw a line with water on both
sides and then get up. In this case we are separating ourselves from the group.
But why is this done?
There
are some reasons here which we can agree. Let’s assume that we are having a feast
in a ceremony. There are some servers who are serving food at all ends. In case
someone gets up from his place leaving food, he has to walk along in a line
where servers are not serving food in that line. This does not seem to a big problem.
But as he gets up leaving the food, other people also start getting up looking
at him. This seems to a big problem to the servers while serving the food to
others. And the other reason may be, when he is walking away to wash his hands,
there are some chances of the left-overs in his hand may ooze (leak) into others
leaf while they are having food. This happens often in case of a huge crowd. Then
it is also a matter of respect given to the eldest ones. Hence people are
advised not to get up from their place of having food until the eldest one gets
up. But the eldest one decides to get up only by looking at others that they
have finished or not. As he is an Honourable person, if he had finished first
he must not get up instead he has to wait for others to finish, because
equality matters.
Hence
these were the scientific reasons which I was able to think of it. So if you
agree with these reasons and got understood correctly, then please follow them instead
of blaming it as a superstition. Our ancestors have made each and every ritual
for a particular reason. So please try to understand them. If you have any objections
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