Holistic Jain Diet for Health and Spirituality 150002

Author(s): Pravin K Shah
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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Jain Diet – Follow the Path of Minimum
Violence (Samvar)
Order of Degree of Violence (highest to lowest) 1. Violence or Exploitation of Human Beings (1st
order Sin) - food, clothes, and shelters prepared by
child labor, or by exploiting other human beings 2. Violence to five sensed Animals (2nd order Sin) - food prepared by exploiting and killing animals:
Meat, Milk, Cheese, Butter, Sweets, Ice-creams,
Fish, Chicken, Eggs etc.. 3. Violence to four and three sensed movable beings
such as flies, bees, insects (3rd order Sin)