Is not the pulp or kernel in fruits and greeny leaves and vegetables flesh?
K: If the kernel or pulps of fruits are flesh indeed, then we could as well say that the sweet jamoons and Rasagollas are also flesh for it has also juice in them. But who says as such? Blood is there where flesh is there. Can there be a flesh without blood? There is a juice in trees and plants but no blood. Wherefrom the blood can come? The human body consists of seven essential elements called Dhatus. (They are Rasa, raktha, mamsa, medhus, majje, and asthi as per Ayurveda text) Among these Rasa comes first, which is converted to blood subsequently. When our food is eaten it is converted to Rasa. From Rasa it becomes Raktha or blood. The blood becomes flesh which is third stage in process of assimilation. Nature has designed that Rasa be converted to flesh and therefore by eating flesh it is again converted to Rasa and then again to flesh. This is against the rules of nature. K: If that is the case, there may not be any wrong in eating eggs for eggs do not contain flesh. Probably they
