1. What is Abhakshya (Amoral food stuff) ?
The food which is not regarded eatable, is amoral food.
2. How many kinds of amoral foods are ?
Amoral foods are of five kinds - Trasghat Karak (casuative for the destruction of mobilebeings), Pramãdvardhak (furthering / increasing laziness), Bahughat Karak (causative of the destruction of beings in excessive number), Anisht Karak (disastrous) and Anupsevya (not fit to be taken by gentlemen).
- Trasghat Karak - By eating which food stuff mobile beings, are killed, like 'banyan', peepal, pakar, umar, kathumar (all fruits of ficus genus class), meat, honey, stale food and worm-infested grain ,etc.
- Pramadvardhak - By eating / consuming food-stuff due to which one becomes lazy, negligent, for example - taking wine, cannabis, hemp, heroin, hemp-leaves, opium, BiriCigrate and tabacco ,etc.intoxicating objects. Note - Kingfisher, Begpiper ,etc. are also wine.
- Bahughat Karak - The food-stuff in which fruit are found less but mobile beings in excessive number are killed, like wet ginger, radish, flowers ofNeem tree, flowers of Kevra, butter and all yams.
- Anishta Karak - The food-stuffs which are contrary to your nature, like taking curd in the cough, ghee in fever, ghee and oil in the heart disease, sugar in diabetes, corn/grain made items in typhoid and salt in high blood pressure, etc.
- Anupsevya - The food-stuff which are not worth taking by gentlemen, like cow-urine, she-camel- milk, counch-powder, remains of betel leaf, saliva, urine, rubbish remains of food and phlegm-spittle, etc.
3. What is amoral food-stuff with regard to substance region, time and volition ?
Substance (Dravya) - Just as some one cooked sterilised food and the dog or cat, etc. made it impure by touching it / leaving it uneaten then that becomes amoral food or some impure object should have fallen in it.
Region - To take food sitting in impure place, is amoral food with regard to region.
Time (Kala) - With regard to time it is clear that after prescribed expiry period of particular food item, that becomes amoral food-stuff. In Leestar country the sweet is thrown after 8 hours from its preparation.
Volition (Bhava) - At the time of taking food if an idea strikes that this edible food item is like meat, blood or wine, etc. then as soon as this idea strikes, that food become amoral, this is Bhava Abhakshya.
4. What is Chalit rasa (non-edible liquids) Abhakshya ?
The food items which have changed in touch, taste, odour and colour, such food-stuff should not be taken because many kinds of mobile beings and infinite Nigod Jeeva are necessarily germinated in such food-articles. (Lati Sanhita, 56)
5. What other food material should be renounced by the renouncer of 'Panch Udamber Phal' (fruits of ficus genus class)?
He should renounce all unknown fruits', earlier many persons have died by eating unknown fruits.
6. Whether curd is Bhakshya or Abhakshya ?
The curd is Bhakshya (eatable). The curd which is prepared by the following method is eatable. The milk got boiled within an Antarmuhurta after it is milked. The curd is coagulated by pouring in it any one of the following artickles, viz.. a silver coin, almonds, unbroken red chilli, some pieces of dried raw mango, etc. within one hour. No bacteria are found in such curd, this curd is Bhakshya.
7. Whether butter is Bhakshya or Abhakshya ?
The wine, meat, honey and butter have been described as great deformity / perversity, hence all these are Abhakshya . The eatable expiry period of the butter is Antarmuhurta and Pt. Ashadhar ji has regarded its expiry as 2 Muhurta. That has been described with the objective of making ghee, not with the motifof eating it?
8. Which food stuff has been described as Dwidala Abhakshya in commentary 21 on Charitra Pahuda by Acharya Shrutsagar ji, the writer of commentary on Astapahud?
द्विदलान्न मिश्र दधितक्र स्वादितं सम्यक्त्वमपि मलिनयेत्,
- i.e. curd and butter milk mixed with grains /pulse having two opposite faces alike makes also even the right belief vicious / dirty, hence it should be renounced.
9. Whether the Abhakshya are only these or still more ?
At present in the marriage ceremonies, birthday parties, Dal-Bafle (boiled pulse and thick bread cake boiled & baked) breads cooked in oven, Chole-Bhatoore (boiled and spiced gram and fried bread-cake) are served in which the curd is mixed hence they are Dwidal, and in the food items found in the market many of them are Abhakshya like packed boxes of ice-cream, gelatin, silver paper, ajinomoto (a kind of sodium bicarbonate powder) sago, lemon-extract (Tatri) and Maggi, etc.
