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MANAV DHARMA / 41
Description :
“Jayati Indriyani vashikarote iti Jina" i.e. one who has fully controlled his five senses is called a Jina'. Lord Jina is the only deity, worthy of worship and ommicient lord and the followers of such Jina are called Jains. Hence those who have sought refuge of Lord Jinendra and who have adopted and followed the path laid down by Him should abstain from the use of Honey, flesh and wine for ever. Those who follow austerety, should renounce these three things since very beginning. As the religion (Dharma) proclaimed by Lord Jinendra is fully Non-violent, or with a principle of non-violence, hence all such acts of violence have been taken as wrong, hatred and unpious, which is an ideal not only for a man but for all living beings; it should be an ideal, honourable and acceptable. To use these three things, have been declared as a means of great violence and hence the man who adopts them can never be a worshipper of non-violence or Ahimsa Dharma.
Out of these three, in using flesh (meat-eating) and honey, killing of animals is always possible and that is, there is complete violence but the drinking of wine or liquor not only leads to the commitment of "Himsa" because wine is repository of many lives, which are generated in it, but it stupifies the mind. One whose mind is stupified, he forgets piety and the death is also a likelihood. Hence it has been enjoined upon all wise people to completely renounce the drinking of wine, meat-eating and use of honey since the very beginning and also renounce such eatables, which may cause Himsa. Unfiltered water, staled curd along with cereals with two pieces should also be given up as these are the cause of minute violence-killing of minute germs and other living beings.
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अल्पफल- बहु-विघातान्मूलक - मार्द्राणि शृंगवेराणि । नवनीत निम्बकुसुमं कैतकमित्येवमव - हेयम् ॥ ८५ ॥
Explanation :
Because there is little good and great Himsa in their use, green ginger, roots, butter, buds and flowers should be excluded from the list of eatables.
Description :
The green roots and vegetables mentioned above are forbidden on the ground that each of them is the abode of more souls then one; and butter is objectionable on account of its becoming the incubator of certain kind of germs, on a large scale, within a very short time of its preparation.
