Jaina Philosophy

SR No.: 006901
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 298
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 5 MB

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The Science of Eating vegetable diet. In other books of the Bible you will find passages confirming this theory. In the book of Daniel you will find such a passage. This proves that the earliest theory in the Bible history was of the vegetable diet.
There are of course other reasons for following this rule besides the fact that sacred history which confirms it. There are many people who do not believe in these books, and they think only of scientific facts. They think that muscular strength and endurance depend on animal diet, but science and facts are both against this view. In regard to muscular strength, in India we have all kinds of people, English and Hindus and in both endurance and strength the Hindus are far superior to the English people. In all parts of the world it has been known that the Hindus are more able to endure the struggles of war than the English. They say that in colder climate the carbons and fatty substances necessary to the human body can only be supplied by meat, but vegetables and all starchy substances contain more carbon than flesh.
Another reason is given, that in colder climates vegetables do not grow, but in this age of civilization when transportation is so easy and one kind of food can be carried in so short a time from one country to another, these arguments are of no avail. If we compare different parts of the world where people use different kinds of food we shall find that this theory is controversial, for the people in Africa, living very near the Equator, are cannibals, while the Hindus who live in the Himalayas' are still vegetarians. And we find proof of the comparative strength of the Hindus who live side by side with the English who are meat-eaters, that the travellers who go to Thibet, among the mountains where horses cannot travel, employ carriers who take the travellers on their shoulders and cross the mountain in this way.
It is the Hindus who live on pulse and other herbs who are able to carry the meat-eating, pork-eating Englishman over the
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