1. Jain Diet and Food
Wholestic Approach to Spirituality and Health

2. Goal of Jainism Total Liberation from Karma
Spiritual Nirajara is the process of Exhaustion of karma already acquired
The karma exhaust themselves by producing the results when it is time for them to do so.
However at that time, new karma begin to pour in.
Hence it becomes difficult to be free of Karma.
Therefore, one should destroy the Karma before they produce the result.

3. Goal of Jainism Nirjara is done by rigorous penance. External Penance:
Relates to Physical Body
Internal Penance:
Relates to Thought Process

4. External Penance (Nirjara)
Anasan
Complete abstinence of eating and drinking
Alpähära or Unodari
Reduced quantity of food one normally eats
Ichhänirodha or Vrttisamksepa
Control of desire for food and material things
Rasatyäg
Give up stimulating or tasty food
honey, alcohol, butter, milk, tea, sweets, juice etc.
Sanlinatä
Stay in lonely places free from all disturbances. Restraining the senses from external happiness, and diverts their use for spiritual uplift
Käya_klesha
Penance and Tolerating physical pain voluntarily

5. Jain Diet and Food Criteria
Anasan
Complete abstinence of eating and drinking
Alpähära or Unodari
Eat less than your hunger
Ichhänirodha or Vrttisamksepa
Control the desire of food
Limit Number of Food Items to eat
Rasatyäg
Give up stimulating or tasty food
honey, alcohol, butter, milk, tea, sweets, etc.

6. Jain Conduct Nonviolence is the Highest principle of Jain Religion
However Life can not exist without violence
Hence for our existance we must follow the path of Minimum Violence

7. Path of Minimum Violence
Violence is praportional to number of senses a living being possesses
Order of Violence (Highest to lowest)
Hurting or Killing of
Human being
Animals
Birds and Insects
Vegetables, Water, Fire, Air, Earth
Hurting or Killing of one individual higher sense living being is more sinful act than thousands of lower sense living beings
It also has a greater impact on Environment
Hence Jainism believes in Vegetarianism

8. Jain Diet / Food Criteria
Jain Diet / Food must be conducive to the health and spiritual upliftment
Criteria
Eat less than your hunger
No stimulating or tasty food
Food should be obtained from
Not hurting or killing Human beings, Animals, Birds, or Insects
Minimum Violence to Vegetables, Water, Fire, Air, and Earth (Vegetarian Food)
Limit number of Food Items to eat

9. Various Categories of Food
1. Violence to Trasa Souls (Movable Souls)
Violence to Sanjni Panchendriya Souls (Five Sense + Mind) - Human and Animals
Violence to Asagni Movable Souls
2. Violence to Sthavar Souls (Immovable Souls)
Anant-käya (Vegetables with Infinite Souls)
Pratyek-Kaya (Vegetables with Innumerable Souls)
3. Anishta Food (Not proper for the health or spiritual upliftment)
4. Improper (Anupsevya) Food

10. Various Categories of Food
1. Violence to Trasa Souls (Movable Souls)
Violence to Oneself (Hurting ourselves)
Violence to Sanjni Panchendriya Souls (Five Sense + Mind) - Human and Animals
Violence to Asagni Movable Souls (Two to Five Sense Souls)
We should not eat any food that involves or results in violence to Trasa (Movable) Souls or creates violence within

11. Various Categories of Food
2. Violence to Sthavar Souls (Immovable Souls)
Categories of Vegetable Souls
Anant-käya (Vegetables with Infinite Souls)
Kandamul
Pratyek-Kaya (Vegetables with Innumerable Souls)
Udambar Food
Abhakshya Food
All other Food
We should define our limit to consume Vegetable food group (it involves minimum violence)

12. Various Categories of Food
3. Anishta Food (Not proper for the health or spiritual upliftment)
Any food which is not good for health or spiritual upliftment and yet we consume is only due to intense attachment towards the food
Liquor, Drugs, Tobacco etc..
Stale Food (Fruits, Vegetables, Food has fungus)
4. Improper (Anupsevya) Food
Coal, Clay, etc.
We should not eat these foods

13. Products Related to Animal Cruelty
Dairy Products
Milk, Yogert, Cheese, Butter, Icecream, Ghee, Sweets
Eggs
Honey
Jello (made from Gelatin)
Varakh (Silver Foil)

14. Cruelty in Dairy Industry
Cows are kept pregnant continually
Slaughtering their 70% to 80% of baby calves within six months by Veal industry or within five years by beef industry
Slaughtering the mother cows after five years of their fertile life (life expectancy is 15 years)
Everyday hormones or drugs are injected to increase milk yield.

15. Cruelty to Animals Statistics Animals Killed per Day in USA
Cattle - 130,000
Calves - 7,000
Hogs - 360,000
Chickens - 24,000,000

16. Impact on Environments
Greenhouse effect
World's 1.3 billion cows annually produce 100 million tons of methane
a powerful greenhouse gas which traps 25 times as much solar heat as CO2
Water Consumption
Livestock (Cattle, Calves, Hogs, Pigs) production accounts for more than half of all the water consumed in USA.
Land Usage
A third of the surface of North America is devoted to grazing
Half of American croplands grow livestock feed for meat and dairy products
220 million acres of land in the USA have been deforested for livestock production
25 million acres in Brazil, and half the forests in Central America

17. Impact on Environments
To produce 1 lb. of meat, an average of 40 lb of vegetation is used.
(This calculation takes in to consideration, the land clearing, as well as food for the live-stock till slaughter - food cattle are generally slaughtered prior to 2-years-old, dairy cattle may live 4 years before being turned into burgers).
To produce 1 lb. of meat, an average of 2500 gallons of water is used.
(1 lb. of wheat requires 108 gallons of water, 1 lb. of rice needs 229 gallons of water, 1 lb. of potatoes require just 60 gallons of water).
*Source: USDA

18. Impact on Environments (continued)
Waste released in the environment by US meat and dairy industry: 230,000 pounds per second, polluting our land, air and water systems.
*Source: USDA
Non-vegetarian Living - Impact on Health
High Cholesterol
High Saturated Fats
High incidence of Prostate Cancer
Calcium Deficiency (recent study)
Less Hygienic

19. Eggs
Poultry Farms - Hens / Chickens are consider Egg producing Machine
Confined to Narrow Space
Attack One Another
De-beaked
Food Given
Bone meal, Blood meal, Excreta food, Meat meal, Fish meal, Grain
Unfertilized Egg
Result of Sexual Cycle of a hen
Usage
cosmetics, cakes, cookies, candies, wine "clearing" agent, Shampoos, Skin care products

20. Varakh (Silver Foil)
Used to decorate Sweets, Betel nut, paan, Temple idols etc..
Annually 255,000 Kgs used ($40 Millon)
Manufactured using Cow's Intestine (Ox-gut) obtained from slaughterhouses
Thin strips of silver placed between intestine and manually hammered.

21. Violence to Oneself Intoxication Liquor Opium Tobacco Bhang (Snuff)
Drugs

22. Abhakshya Food - 22 Relates to Cruelty to movable (Trasa) Souls
01. Meat
02. Madha (Honey)
03. Butter
04. Madira (Liquor)
05. Madak (Vishaya) Padarth
06. Dvidala - Dairy product mixed with Beans
Milk, yogurt, or buttermilk mixed with Beans and human saliva - Trasa souls are borne

23. Abhakshya Food - 22 Vegetables with Infinite Souls Five Udambars
07. Kandamul -
Potato, Onion, Ginger (Aadu), Turmeric (Haldar) .....
Five Udambars
08. Green Fig
09. Vada Teta
10. Umarda
11. Kotha
12. Pipara Teta

24. Abhakshya Food - 22 Abhakshya - Relates to various degree of violence
13. Ratri Bhogan (Eating at Night)
14. Rasa Chalit Food (Stele Food)
15. Ringana (Bringal)
16. Kara (Hail Stones, Snow)
17. Baraf (Ice)
18. Bahu Bij Fala (Fruits with Large quantity of Seeds)
19. Bol Athanu - Achar (Pickles)
After 24 hours not eatable
20. Tuchchha Fal (Eat less and through away more)
21. Unknown Fruits
22. Raw Clay

25. Jainism in Action - Eco friendly
Caring for the Earth and Environment is the way of Life for the Jain Community by following the two key principles of Jainism in every day life
Ahimsä
Be Compassionate
Minimize injury to all forms of life including Air, Water, Earth, Plants and Animals
Be Vegetarian / Vegan and avoid the use of Animal based products
Non-possessiveness / Self-restraint
Reduce our needs and wants as far as possible
Reuse / Recycle products, Eliminate Waste
Share Resources

26. The Book of Compassion - Articles
Universal Declaration of The Rights of Animals
My Visit to A Dairy Farm
Dairy Cows - Life, Usage, and Sufferings (New York Times)
Recycling of Slaughterhouses Waste (Rendering Plants)
Milk - Its Impact on Health, Cruelty, and Pollution
Is Nothing Sacred? - Cruelty towards India's Holy Animals
Vegetarianism - A Compassionate Approach to Life
How our Diet affects the Environment
Varakh (Silver Foil)
Facts about Eggs
Story of Silk
Story of Pearls
The Myth about Milk
Puppy Mills: Breeding Ills
Alternatives to Animal Abuse