1. vegetation are single sense entity that do ot manifest all the traits and attributes that we by convention, have come to associate with living organisms.

2. only partial manivestation of life aspects is implied in vegetation

3. seeds that eventually give rise to plant life are in themselves ' sadam' or simply ' matter ' like other matierial helping in life maniffestation

4. man can himself sow the seeds and make them gro in to oplants

5. seeds , roots, leaves, fruit, flower etc, are but the base (or sadam, matter) whereon life can eventually grow, but are not primal living entities by themselfes . Seeds do not grow up by themselves ' seeds' literally means ' base ' or ' foundation ' which may under certain conditions and only with extra help blossominto plant life.

6. consumption of seed fruit etc, entails no torture, just as plucking the hair or cutting the nail is a harmles operation

7. vegetation are bereft of advanced or developed inner tools like the mind vision etc.,

8. seeds are like the body (ie sadam or matter) and 'anithyam' (transient) whereas life (or oyir) is nithyam' (eternal) the 'anithya) body looks up to an 'activating cause ' nithya' uyir need not look up to any such ' cause ' thus the seed, as the ' anithya body' is but sadam.

9. seeds when sown and watered , sporout into seedlings We do not pluck and eat seedlings but only eat the grain, fruit, etc, (n which literally constitute veritable store houses of superefluous food material) and hence this is not against the tenets of jeevakarunyam...

philosophical works of saing vallala

by thiru m. kuppusamy