Introduction to Jainism and its Culture

SR No.: 001605
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Balbhadra Jain
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 334
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Culture
File Size: 21 MB

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Spices – three days during monsoon, five days in summer, and seven days in winter.
Generally speaking hotel and restaurant food is impure. The material and process they use is unhygienic. They use stale, petrid and cheap spices having insects and fungus. The water they use is also unfiltered. Thus such food is impure and contaminated and should be avoided.
WHAT TO EAT?
The second question about food is what to eat? This, in fact, means whether the food should be vegetarian or non-vegetarian. We will discuss non-vegetarianism later. Here we briefly discuss vegetarianism.
For human beings vegetarian food is natural food. Since the beginning of human history man has been herbivorous. During that period he lived with nature and survived on flowers and fruits under the shade of trees. With progress his tendency to accept and use unnatural and artificial things increased. His way of living, his dress and embellishments all became artificial and meat became his regular food. What an irony that today the modern man has to be taught that his natural food is vegetarian.
Nature has created animals in two broad classes – carnivorous and herbivorous. It has provided the two classes anatomical structures with marked differences. The nails of carnivores are long and hard, jaws are elongated, teeth are sharp, uneven and pointed, and they lap up water with their tongue. Some examples are lion, leopard, dog, and cat. On the other side the nails of herbivores are flat, jaws are rounded, teeth are small, blunt, and even and they suck water using their lips.
Surprisingly enough nature has endowed human beings with a body having a structure similar to herbivores. Even the digestive system, skin, and other organs of his body are like herbivorous animals. This proves that nature has cast human beings in the mould of herbivores. Therefore, he should remain vegetarian only.
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