BHOJANA MANTHRAM

I.) Morning meals ( Lunch)



1.) Prokshanam


Take a little water in your right palm , sanctify the water by chanting the Gayathri Manthram and sprinkle the water on the annam(food).


2.) Pariseshanam :


Then take water in your right palm and sprinkle it around leaf or plate chanting the following manthra.


"SATHYAM THWARTHENA PARISANCHAYAMI"


Place four aahudhis ( morsels of food) on the right side of your leaf chanting the following for each aahudis.

i. Chithraya Namaha


ii. Chitra Gupthaya Namaha


iii. Yamaya Namaha


iv. Sarva Bhoothebyo Namaha

NOTE :- Some people place only first two ahudhis.

Take a little water in your right palm and sip it uttering the following manthras.


OM Amrutha / Upastharanan Masi Swaha.

Take a little annam (few grains of cooked rice) and swallow it without touching the teeth chanting each time the following manthras.

1) Om Pranaya Swaha


2) Om Apanaya Swaha


3) Om Vyanaya Swaha


4) Om Udhanaya Swaha


5) Om Samanaya Swaha


6) Om Brahmaneya Swaha

After the meals is over before getting up from the leaf do the following .

1.) Take a little water in your right palm sip a part of it uttering the following manthra.

"OM AMRUTHA APHIDHNAMASI"

2.) Pour the balance of water in right palm on the left side of the leaf chanting the following manthra.

"RAURAVE,APUNYA NILAYE,PADHMARBHUTHA NIVASINAM


ARTHINAM UDHAKAM DHATHTHAM AKSHAYYAM UPATHISHTATHU"

II.) Night Meals:


1.) Prokshanam :


Take a little water in your right palm , sanctify the water by chanting the Gayathri Manthram and sprinkle the water on the annam(food).


2.) Pariseshanam :


Then take water in your right palm and sprinkle it around leaf or plate chanting the following manthra.

"RITHAMTHWA THWARTHENA PARISANCHAYAMI"

Take a little water in your right palm and sip it uttering the following manthras.


OM Amrutha / Upastharanan Masi Swaha.


Take a little annam (few grains of cooked rice) and swallow it without touching the teeth chanting each time the following manthras.

1) Om Pranaya Swaha


2) Om Apanaya Swaha


3) Om Vyanaya Swaha


4) Om Udhanaya Swaha


5) Om Samanaya Swaha


6) Om Brahmaneya Swaha

After the meals is over before getting up from the leaf do the following .

1.) Take a little water in your right palm sip a part of it uttering the following manthra.

"OM AMRUTHA ABHIDHNAMASI"

2.) Pour the balance of water in right palm on the left side of the leaf chanting the following manthra.

"RAURAVE , APUNYA NILAYE , PADHMARBHUTHA NIVASINAM


ARTHINAM UDHAKAM DHATHTHAM AKSHAYYAM UPATHISHTATHU"