5 uneatables foods

In Jain conduct, uneatables are stated to be of five kinds:

• Articles involving injury or death of mobile-beings e.g. Meat.
• Articles involving injury or death to many creatures eg. Root vegetables as they involve destruction of countless one-sensed beings.
• Intoxicants e.g. Wine etc.
• Articles not worthy of use e.g. Saliva, Stool, and Urine.
• Deprecables Articles causing harm to the health are uneatables of the fifth category.

The basis of Jain Food is non-injury (Ahimsa). These days, the inclination to use ready-made articles of food and drink is gaining ground continuously. In the use of such articles, knowingly or unknowingly the use of meat and wine is involved. The people who are totally vegetarian, non-violent, they too knowingly or unknowingly eat and drink these articles, so are thus involved in the use of wine and meat in some form or other. This guide is for you!

Those, who desire their souls to be happy, wish to obtain spiritual peace, in other words want to evolve Right Faith- Knowledge- Conduct, wish to realise self-soul, they too should pay attention towards these things. Their life and living should also be endowed with virtue; they should lead a pious life; their surroundings too should be pious and virtuous. “This is the activity of the body” by saying this it is not desirable to ignore such practices.