Namaste,
Answered here on this website.“You STILL eat with your hands.” This is a comment (allegedly) made by Oprah Winfrey in her show on India, suggesting as if eating with hands is something primitive and undesirable. Such cultural insensitivity from a TV hostess renowned for her empathy! Why this disgust about eating with hands?
http://devdutt.com/articles/you-stil...our-hands.html
I like to thank you Devdutt for replying to her, but it is no wonder such negative, disgusting and insulting comments come from Western about Indians. Present day.... nah.... In Modern times those comments are in more profession way, Westerns never respect Indians but Indians never learned this, it is more sad than insult itself. How sarcastic Western world is !!In Vedic texts, food is a goddess and fingers are the midget sages known as Valakhilyas. The sages carry the goddess to our mouths so that we sustain ourselves. In Jyotisha, the five fingers are associated with the five elements: earth (little finger), water (ring finger), air (middle finger), ether (index finger) and fire (thumb). Thus when we eat by hand, the five elements get symbolically connected with the food. But such symbolism and speculations do not matter as one gets more modern and civilized, I guess.
I like to say double thanks to Devdutt for improving my knowledge about Dharma.
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