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THE
SANATANA JAINA.
" I io not except you to execute this improvement or to surrendar the prejudice in my tim but at any rate it shall not be my fault if the improvement remains unknown or rejected. There shall be one man at least, who has surrendered the prejudice, and who does not hide that fact"
Mr. John Morley.
VOL. III.
BOMBAY, JULY, 1908.
No. 12.
THE SCIENCE OF EATING.
This science may treated not only giving quietness, the second activity from the standpoint of the western or motion or beat, and the third that scientists, but also from that of the class of food which gives the quality of Hindus. The scientists and chemists slothfulness or absence of motion, of hare analyzed in so many ways the property of giving beat, or quiet. the different articles of diet, and have ness even. These three properties of divided them into the two classes of matter, each are found on the physical nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous foods, plane to have the qualities correspond. saying that the one is important for ing to those on the mental and moral the formation of the tissues, bones, planes. In this way we would not blood, etc., and the other kind is advocate some kinds of foods which necessary for the formation of other are accepted as good by the chemists, elements. They give the percentage of and here the great distinction comes different elements in all the different in which the Hindus make in regard articles of diet, and recommend some to food. In the matter of animal and kinds and not others on the basis. vegetable food they accept the one While they analyze the food into phy. and reject the other. The reason for sical elements. Our theory divides this is different from the reasons given food into three kinds, going a step by the chemists. We adunit that we futher, as it divides matter into three have the same elements in animal kinds, the first having the quality of food as in vegetable, but there are passivity, the second of activity and certain injurious properties in the the third of grossness. So food is animal food which do not exist in the divided into three classes, the first vegetable. Take the first property of
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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| SR No. | 035241 |
| Book Title | Sanatan Jain |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Unknown |
| Publisher | ZZZ Unknown |
| Publication Year | 1907 |
| Total Pages | 412 |
| Language | English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati |
| Classification | Book_English, Book_Devnagari, & Book_Gujarati |
| File Size | 3 MB |