Why should we do prayer 

to the God before taking our food ?

The Aksharam means which is not

perishable and always permanet.

The Mantram means, one who chants

the Mantram that will  always protect him.

In our sacred scriptures, so many grea

t alms, disctus, and many other customs

 to the mankind and guided us how to live

 as  a man on this earth for the benefit

 of happy and peace in this universe.

The  Dhyana Mantraksharas ( enchanting with prayer)

 has very  great cosmic power.

The man must live in Dharmic manner

without doing any harm to

others and also to any creature.

The food which we eat must be like  a

nector which gives us nobility and spirituality.

If not that would be equivalent to poison.

The man  does  earn the 

money in a righteous way.

But if  he  leads  his life with  a kind of

unrightful money, or the food grains

and other vegetables are cultivated

by the side of  gutter channels or the

food grains etc are grown up in the places

 of waste lands or barren lands , if so,

 the food which is prepared with  those

food grains and vegetables that could be  a poisonous. 

We do not know whether the food grains or

 vegetables are cultivated in righteous way or not.

Because of that only,  by means of doing prayer

that food can be made into Amrutam (which is divinity). 

Hence, before eating our food we must pray

the Lord  to make the food into Amrutamayam.

So we do  the Prayer when we sit before

 our food to eat for making the food as nector.