Jamea Cheadle
9/24/13
World Religion 17
I Am Food!
“Oh, the wonder of joy! I am the food of life, and I am he who eats the food of life: I am the two in ONE. I am the first-born of the world of truth, born before the gods, born in the center of immortality. He who gives me is my salvation. I am that food which eats the eater of food.”
This quote was really powerful to me. This quote has a more powerful meaning about itself besides the physical meaning of food and the taste of it. I am a Christian and throughout this semester I learned a lot about Hinduisms religion. The two religions have a lot in common. I really don’t know the true meaning about this quote In Hinduism perspective and I don’t want to falsely state anything wrong, but I can relate to it in Christians perspective. I remember one day talking about how food could have a huge impact on my life. As a child I sat in church a couple of times, and doing the service they passed around a small little shot cup of juice, so I thought it was, and a piece of bread. I was excited about the juice and piece of bread because I seem to always hungry in church. I never really knew the true meaning of why they did this, so one I asked why do we eat a small piece of bread and some juice this isn’t going to fill me up. My mom laughing and began explaining the reason why we eat and drink this. She explains this food of life. This food is Jesus’s body. Jesus had a piece of bread and as he said the blessing he broke pieces of the bread and gave it to his disciples. He had a cup of wine, which stood for his blood. Drinking his blood stood for the forgiveness of your sins. Who ever eats Jesus flesh and drink his blood lives in him and he lives in them. Jesus was sent to us from god to forgive us for our sins and he wants us to do the same for him, but this quote also has a deeper meaning, food blesses are mind and soul.