How do Jain monastics obtain food for themselves?
What will be an ideal response?
Jain monastics neither cook their food nor have others cook it for them. They go once every day to Jain households and receive from each house a little uncooked food suitable for raw consumption (so householders do not have to prepare more food after the monks have departed). Unless a cook is very careful, the heat of the cooking process does violence to small creatures, as does vegetable chopping and water drinking; nuns and monks do not want to be a part of any violence. They do not accept any food or drink outside a house, but instead go inside where the food is cooked or kept, out of concern for small creatures more numerous outside than inside. When they return to their religious quarters, or to their temporary home if they are wandering, they eat their food in one main meal for each day, sometimes leaving a little for a smaller, unheated meal or a snack.
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