Let’s say you have a dream where you’re sitting in a dining hall, about to enjoy your food. The unusual thing is, there is no food on the plate.

According to the custom, you begin to say a prayer before you eat. As you’re praying silently, fresh salad and proteins begin to appear on your plate.

If you go to a Hare Krishna restaurant, you might notice how calm and slow they are when serving the food. Of course they also take the same care in preparing the food - literally preparing food fit for a god, Lord Krishna.

When you put the curry in your mouth, you notice there is something special about it - something the Hare Krishnas call “The Higher Taste”, the spiritual element of food, the elation of eating something that has been blessed, that has been made with the intention of blessing.

Is it the food that sustains us, or the grace that we say before we eat?

For transcript and notes go to: Grace Sustains Us A Beautiful Thought