Scientific Secrets of Jainism

Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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Scientific Secrets of Jainism
Lest man should continuously relish the taste of green and fresh vegetables and fruits, lest he should develop attachment for such worthless things as green vegetables and fruits and lest he should take birth among them, parva-tithis are perhaps arranged inorder to abstain from green vegetables and fruits at an interval of every two days.
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By the way, it needs to be noted here that there is a possibility of production of minute organisms in unsplit pulses and therefore monks and nuns do not take unsplit pulses (gram etc) as food during the rainy season and on parva- tithis.
Really speaking, it is not very necessary for those who are vegetarians to take greens. But those who are non-vegetarians need to take greens in their diet because the non-vegetarian diet does not contain carbohydrates, salts, vitamins etc. that are necessary for a human body. Besides flesh etc. have no fibres and the want of fibrous food may cause constipation. They should, therefore, take greens in a large quantity. Experiences of physicians also prove this. Vegetarians regularly take fresh vegetables and therefore, they do not suffer from such diseases. They, therefore, do not need to take more green vegetables.
Greens are full of haemoglobin. It gets oxygen from air and purifies blood in lungs. Since it is not at all there in non-vegetable diet i.e flesh etc., the body of non-vegetarians becomes pale. Since there is a good amount of haemoglobin in the body of vegetarians, they do not need to take greens. Besides, there is a lot of haemoglobin in pulses etc.
Speaking from the Ayurvedic view-point, green vegetables increase bile and pulse increase gas. If green vegetables are taken excessively, bile is excited. In order to prevent it and in order to maintain the balance of gas, bile and mucus, one should abstain from fresh vegetables at intervals of two days. It is also necessary that he should eat pulses. Parva-tithis also come approximately after an interval of two days. The first parva-tithi is the second day of the lunar month then after two days comes the fifth day, then eighth, eleventh and fourteenth days after an interval of two days each. At the end of the whole fortnight, the fourteenth and fifteenth days come as joint parva-tithis. The only reason for this is that if the bile has slightly increased during the fortnight, it can subside as a result of abstinence from green vegetables continuously for two days.