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arrangements of band parties? There at wedding, they can only light up twelve tube lights. They do not get prepare more than two sweets in the dinner. They do not prepare more than eleven items including water too. It is a great thing and greatness of them. Now, in such a critical time, the people who enact and execute such type of great and pious rules are blessed by the Tirthankars (Godly dignities of Jain religion) themselves.
I would like to request all the societies of the world to adopt Satvikta (i.e. purity and holiness followed by vegetarian diets) in their diet. We should arrange social functions but should never make the money base of our prestige. The dinner (diet) should appear as dishes offered to gods and goddesses. We should arrange simple, pure and pious vegetarian diets only then our prolonged efforts for the noble cause will help us gradually to bring positivity and purity in the diets.
The diabetic problem is a common thing now-a-days so avoid preparing sweet dishes in when you arrange any dinner. Prefer pure and pious vegetarian diets instead of rich oily and spicy meals. Make the meals so simple that it becomes a sign of your personality. The diet of the Jains in Gujarat is famous for containing no onion, potato, garlic etc. The diet you take or you offer to someone must be simple and pure with pious feelings.
Recently, an impressive saint got 2100 types of sweets to offer to the Goddess near by Bangalore city. He made a world record. It if was done for the sake of making world record, it is all correct but if it was arranged in order to offer the Goddess, it is the thinking of the Saint as it is well known that God or Goddess does not require the quantity of dishes but they require only to keep trust in them. We should have devoted feelings not the tendency of showing pomp and show among other people. 114
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