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## Harm from Alcohol
**Yoga Shastra, Third Light, Verse 817**
**6-7.** Give up the consumption of all these: split lentils (dal), moss (fulan), rice that has fallen, yogurt that is two days old, stale food.
**179.** Now, the harmful effects (faults) of alcohol are presented in ten verses.
**8.** Just as a clever man, due to misfortune, abandons a woman from afar, so too, a wise man loses his intelligence upon merely drinking alcohol.
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**9.** Due to the mind being overpowered by drinking alcohol, the sinful drunkard, losing his senses, behaves towards his mother like a wife, and towards his wife like a mother.
**10.** A person with a disturbed (restless) mind, due to drinking alcohol, cannot recognize his own or others. He, the unfortunate one, treats his servant as his master and his master as his servant. He becomes pitiful due to being unconscious.
**11.** When a drunkard, like a corpse, lies on the street, dogs urinate in his open mouth, fearing a pit.
**12.** Immersed in the taste of alcohol, the drunkard sleeps naked in the marketplace, and carelessly reveals his secret thoughts, or treason, etc., which should be kept secret.
**13.** Just as applying kajal on beautifully drawn pictures destroys them, so too, drinking alcohol destroys a person's beauty, fame, intelligence, talent, and wealth.
**14.** The drinker of alcohol dances and jumps like a possessed person, cries loudly like one mourning the dead, and rolls and writhes like a person suffering from a burning fever.
**15.** Like the poison Halahala, alcohol makes the drinker's limbs weak, weakens the senses, and causes a severe fainting spell.
**16.** Discrimination, self-control, knowledge, truthfulness, purity of conduct, compassion, and forgiveness - all these virtues are destroyed by alcohol, like a large pile of grass being consumed by a single spark of fire.