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MANAV DHARMA / 89
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This is the fifth Pratima known as SACHITA TYAG Pratima. A virtuous householder does not eat uncooked or unripe roots, fruits, greens, branches, shoots of hard and thorny plants, bulbous vegetables, flowers and seeds or its parts, because his heart is embodied with mercy. Hence he is known as an abstainer of eating uncooked greens. Where in any object or thing, any slightest consciousness is found or if there is any doubt of any sentience in any object then that will be taken as Sachita object. A householder who is following the Vratas of the fifth stage or Pratima never eats the uncooked green vegetables. That, while observing Samayika and Prosodhopvasa. he has adopted a feeling of equanimity and has begun to have a firm belief that the soul is the same as found in the body of an elephant or of an ant. There is no difference in the sentient of any living being, big or small, He never likes to give trouble to both sentient or insentient substances, mobile or immobile beings. He goes on meditating that no living being should be harassed by him, no living being should be in grief or agony due to his living and living behaviour. Thinking in this way, he concludes that it is essential to pay rent to this body, without giving proper nourished food and diet to this body, service of humanity through this body is not possible. Proper nourished food mainly depends on green vegetables and every part of the green is imbibed with life. All the fruits, leaves branches all have immobile onesensed living substance. Though being immobile, they are not visible to us with our naked eyes but great personages have confirmed it through their eternal knowledge and the modern scientists have also proved this fact after visualizing the one sensed immobile substance through Microscopic lenses. Hence it is stressed there upon that, before use, all green vegetables and fruits either be boiled or cooked so that the immobile substance is removed and the greens become fit eatables. Now here is a question - As per this version, have the green vegetables then become alike a dead body ? The answer is :- Generally speaking, the body of mundane substances have been categorised in two divisions (1) From two sensed jivas to five sensed - Ox, Horse, Elephant and the like animals and a man, the body is taken as dead when death occurs to all of them. No doubt that the soul departs from the body of living being (man and animal) but still the Nigodiya Jivas (undeveloped one sensed being) innumerable in numbers, still exist in that dead body and hence it never becomes free from these Nigodiya Jivas, it is never taken as lifeless. In the same way in green vegetables the immobile one sensed beings are fleshless and bloodless, hence when they are boiled they become lifeless and the man can eat them. 'Tamasikta” is ended
