Aharvigyan – Science of Food

RESEARCH SUBJECTS:

Diet/Food/Life Science

• (a) Types of Foods and their Effects
• सात्त्विक, राजसिक, तामसिक
• (b) Food habits and Fast-foods & mixing
• (c) Boiling & filtering water
• (d) Life of Different food items: Flour (3,5,7)

Types of Ahaar

. Prakshepahar
• Ojahar .
. Lomahar

सात्त्विक

Vigai is a Rajsik food, while Mahavigai is a Tamsik food so every one should abstain form Mahavigai. Science of Tithi

Section III : Ahaarvigyan

Purity of Food is necessary for Purity of Soul

• The philosophy of food : Quantitative & Qualitative (satva,Rajas, Tamas)
• Modern science has confined at determining the caloric values and its classification into vitamins, proteins and carbohydrate content.
• The jain school of thought has gone deep into subtler properties of various types of food items and deal with its psychic as well as physical effects.
• Long before existence of microscopic life was shown and plants were considered to be living by modern science, these facts were well established in jain philosophy and formed the foundations of complex practice as a corollary of nonviolence, which is the basic tenet of Jainism.
• That is why there is severe restriction on Ratribhojan and drinking water without boiling. Also to avoid Kandmul like potato and similar anantkaya plants.

Ratribhojan – Terrible sin

• Physiologically at night :  Slow metabolism, Decreased activity Indigestion.
• Absence of sun light: Excess of organisms.
• Sunlight can kill them and control pollution.
• Rule of 48 minutes (for sheet yoni microscopic jiva).
• Best digestion is at the middle of the day.
• Ayurveda preaches this for positive health purposes.
• Allopathy for metabolic purposes.
• Rajnishji for celebacy

Austerities

To use very limited items and with caution, is a practice of non violence. Collectiveness and overutilization is violence

• Biyasana: Disciplined eating habits. No junk. Boiled water. No food & water after sunset.
• Ekasana: Rest to body so next day stronger. Avoid abhakshya, anatkaya & apathya food, so no perversions. Only eat moderate amount and satvik food.
• Ayambil Dry: Avoid vigai. So control of pitta & cough. No spices. Control over tongue, therefore all other senses. Auli to be done twice a year at Sandhikaal.
• Fast: 36 hours (a) Tivihaar (b) Chauvihar.

Vigai – Mahavigai

• Vigai: Perversion.
• Mahavigai: Worst perversion.
• The food objects which change the natural tendencies of body, mind and soul and pervert them are vigai.
• Vigai: 6: Milk, curd, ghee, oil, jaggary – sugar, fried items & sweet objects.
• Mahavigai : 4: Butter, honey, eggs-meat-fish, alcohol Non-veg: Saprophytes
• Alcohol: Pramad, Chitnash etc 16 doshas.
• Honey: To obtain it we have to kill many bees.

• The subjects requiring further research.
• Disease prevention by jain attitude and life style
• Three types of Ahaar: (Siddhasen Diwakarji)
• 1) Ojahar      2) Lomahar      3) Prakshepahar.

(Kawal, Drugs, Intravenous) etc.

• Karmic theory and Genome project.
• The concept of autonomous human birth and the cloning of same kind of organisms.