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thank you for your participation and offerings Kaarine and Srivijaya

i will now offer my interpretation

first, i always sensed, just like edible food, the Four Nutriments are requisites that must be used in a manner conducive to enlightenment. they are things not be abandoned but to be used skilfully

for example, just like edible food, how could a mind gain enlightenment if it had no sense impressions and no consciousness?

how could the mind initiate the path and act in the world without intention?

so Kaarine's original quote helped me alot, when it clarified the Pali as "for the maintenance (thitiya); for the support (anuggahaya); for the purpose of helping"