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A NOTE ON NECTAR

NECTAR is holistic.

NECTAR is sacrosanct.

NECTAR is called AMRUT or Amrutham in India or Bharat.

NECTAR is considered the ultimate form of energetic food in its purest form.

Natural NECTAR in a way is a God-given gift that is observable in most flowers. For this very reason, we see Bees and Hummingbirds hovering over the flowers for the food available in its pristine form.

Humans consider Honey as the nearest and best available form of nectar and consume it,  and also offer it to deities in rituals and Abhishekam of deities. This practice is especially in vogue in Hindu holy offerings. Thus, humans are enjoying honey by exploiting the honey saved as food by the bees. As such, although considered pure is not pure, it has been tasted by bees, insects, and birds, before it is collected, and saved for bottling.

All the same, honey is still consumed and considered holy nectar as in reality a combination of the collection from different flowers by the bees. This combo ensures food value and its variety offers immunity from diseases to humans with its medicinal values; besides offering the best form of healthy energy drink in a readymade format.

Indians consider ‘Panakam’, a combination of water with Jaggery  (same as Gud or Bellam or Vellam) as the second best (next to honey), and as a substitute to honey.

In my personal opinion gained out of my own knowledge, understanding and holistically gained experience; I consider that any form of food that is offered to God initially and thereafter consumed on the completion of the daily prayers; be it at one’s home, temple, or any other place of worship. I have experienced the said feeling of the taste of NECTAR in the very first little quantity of food consumed as ‘Prasadam’ or ‘Prasad’ immediately after the completion of the daily puja and holy prayers.

Also, in my opinion, the taste and satisfaction derived from the described Prasadam is not just sweet and equal to nectar, but it is a healthy, delicious, and refreshing combination with its holistic touch derived from prayers and associated chants.

Furthermore, this prasadam = nectar generates satisfaction, since the taste gives a feel of ‘shudruchi’, meaning the feeling of tasting a combo formed due to the admixture of Six individual ingredients and yet each of them with individual flavor. The said ‘shudruchi’ feature and feel are perhaps being formed hollistically. It is not out of place to mention that it is a cultural custom and practice in the Southern States of India to prepare the ‘Shudruchi Chutney’, combining small quantities of newly arrived produce of Jaggary + raw Mango + Neem Flowers + Tamarind + Honey + Pepper; and which is offered to the deities after the prayers of the day to mark the arrival of the New Years Day with its New Produce.

I am of the view that the same Shudruchi feel is experienced in the Prasad consumed after the end of each and every day morning puja and prayers. 

Others may accept, or may not accept, the love and reverence perhaps have a role in such feelings that has to be experienced, and this description is incomplete in its projection and entirety. 

I am also with the opinion that fruits are the best form of foods made available by God through the medium of Nature and animals alike. Fruits carry the required proportion of vitamins, sugar, fiber X, calcium,  citric acid, nominal or minor amounts of minerals, fats etc depending on the chosen fruit. For these contents of Fruits most people like them. I consider them as the carriers of what I mentioned as ‘Shudruchi’ and therefore offer the ideal and healthy food equivalent to Nectar.

Lastly, for a person who has been starving, he realizes the presence of God with his first Morsel or first fluid. He takes it as nectar, offered by HIM. 

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