Pictorial Philosophical Balpothi

Author(s): Bhuvanbhanusuri
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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RENOUNCING SEVEN VICES & THE UNEATABLES
Seven vices are the root cause of sins and lead us towards the hell. They are (1) gambling, (2) eating non-vegetarian food, (3) taking alcohol, (4) visiting the prostitutes, (5) hunting, (6) theft and (7) adultery. Jains are prohibited to follow them by religious regulation. Not taking a vow to practice them is equally sinful even if they are not carried out
Also a Jain must not consume uneatable food as it contains plenty of mobile and micro living beings. Consuming such food is sinful. It spoils the mind and prevents any noble conduct from being done. As a result of which one has to suffer a lot in this birth as well as in next birth, too.
Meat, alcohol, honey and butter (extracted from the buttermilk) are considered to be most uneatable. Roots, algae, mildew, etc. too are uneatable as they contain infinite beings. Besides these, stale food, pickles with particles of water pulses with unboiled curd-buttermilk, candy, buttermilk and curd prepared before 2 nights, ice balls, ice cream, cold drinks etc. are also uneatable. The dinner should not be taken at night. It should be taken before sunset.
In picture 1: a person having eaten meat, has taken birth as a bullock and is being slaughtered by a butcher.
In Picture 2: shows a person fallen into gutter after consuming alcohol. A dog urinates in his mouth, which is wide open. In picture 3: innumerable insects are shown getting stuck to the honeycomb and are dying. The honeycomb is filled with unholy pudgals of shit etc. brought by the bees. A vaghari (bird-shooter) by using fire smoke puts the honeycomb into a sack. Lots of bees get died in it.
Butter contains numberless micro living beings of the same colour, which can be seen with microscope as in picture 4. A person taking dinner at night takes birth as cat, owl, bat etc. The food of hotel is adulterated and is uneatable. Hence the food of hotel, lari, galla or dhaba should not be consumed. Fast food should also not be eaten. This is shown in picture 5.
Curd, buttermilk or milk, if not heated and mixed up with pulses produces innumerable micro beings immediately. Likewise stale and soft puree, bhakhri, roti, rotla, mava etc; pickles not put in sunlight and curd - buttermilk made before 2 nights produce innumerable beings and thus makes these food uneatable as shown in picture-6.
Roots like onion, potato, ginger, garlic, radish, carrot, sweet potato etc. also contain numberless living beings in every particle. Brinjal is also uneatable. Algae or mildew formation on khakhra-papad due to moisture also contains infinite micro living beings, hence can't be eaten.
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