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other non-Jain philosophies too have prohibited eating after sunset. Non-Jain philosophies describe eating after sunset as eating flesh/meat and drinking water after sunset as drinking blood. Secondly they have stated that those who indulge in eating after sunset makes fruitless all their japa (chanting of mantra), tapa (penance) and pilgrimages, they all get nullified. Further it is stated that the sins committed due to eating after sunset cannot be eradicated even by hundreds of chandrayatana tapa (one type of penance).
According to Jain philosophy too eating after sunset has been described as the cause of grave sin. Someone might argue here that ratribhojana vow, pratima (determined vow) and other such vows are to be followed only after Samyagdarshana then what damage does eating after sunset cause to us? To them my answer is- the bondage of paapa karmas of eating after sunset is much high for the people who have not attained Samyagdarshana because they (mithyadrashti=illusive being) indulge in it with great relish, enjoyment and pleasure, whereas Samyagdrashti (one who possesses Samyagdarshana) never indulge in such an error of eating after sunset unless it is necessary and inevitable. Even if Samyagdrashti eats after sunset then it is only as a medicine and with the fear of paapa karmas, they never relish it or do it with perverseness. One shall never ever imbibe-assimilate
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