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REGARDING
KANDMOOLA
(ROOTS AND BULBS) We discussed earlier that by eating kandmoola we commit infinite sins. If someone may ask, why it is so? What is the reason (logic) behind it?
ANSWER - As we have discussed earlier it is the fact that what we give to others we receive that only. That is why the pains that we inflict on others in our day to day life will come back to us as reciprocation of our deeds. When we eat pratyeka (having one jeeva in one body=seed) vegetables having countable jeevas we bondage limited paapa karmas, but when we eat kandmoola=root and bulb vegetables (having infinite jeeva in one body) we bondage infinite paapa karmas because there are infinite jeevas in it. Thus by eating kandmoola we end up bearing infinite pains. (Nobody shall misinterpret this logic and promote non-vegetarianism because in nonvegetarian food there are myriad five sensed jeeva which results in bondage of infinite paapa karmas and life in hell.)
That is why it is said that- if one eats pratyeka vegetables for the full life the paapa karmas bondage by it will be an infinite fraction of the paapa karmas bondage by eating a single piece of kandmoola.
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