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MANAV DHARMA / 25 of preparing liquor and wine is such where innumerable tiny insects and germs are killed due to fermentation which is total Hinsa - violence. The bad smell of wine causes the generating place to so many small germs and it results into the constant formation of germs in the wine and while drinking wine, the drunkard also drinks innumerable tiny invisible germs. There, violence is unavoidable and after drinking wine, the man becomes highly intoxicated. He becomes totally insensible. He looses the power of fair judgement with a mother, sister and wife. He forgets his own responsibilities and power of proper mental thinking is subsided. or destroyed. Even after the intoxication is subsided, the drinker losses his power of thinking, his own duty, as a householder. His mind, speech and body become nervous and a feeling of inferiority complex is developed in him. He behaves like animals; his health is ruined. It is said that during the intoxicated state of a man, even if a dog makes water in the mouth of the drunkard, lying insensible near some city drainage, he even enjoys that urine like a wine-drop. A drunkard has no confidence in his own self and he is bound to disclose even all the secrets of life, profession and of his own wife. Thus he is bound to suffer too much both in this world and in the next world beyond it. Hence the author advises to all readers to refrain from the use of all drugs, wine and opium which give intoxication, if at all they (readers) are wise and virtuous.
To kill the body of such living beings, who have two or more senses, and then to make it eatable is known as flesh. Those, who are meat eaters, have a very unkind and cruel heart. In their thinking, there is no value of the life of other small living beings. They become totally unconsiderate towards the protection of lives of others. The butcher treats the life of others like vegetables carrots-radish. He feels no pity. A meat eater invites other meat eaters or a butcher who in his turn even kills the invitee. Eating flesh by animals cannot be called their regular and easy diet. Basically even a cub grows up after drinking the milk of a lioness but later on, when he comes in the company of these flesh-eaters and cruel animals, he also develops the habit of flesh eating. Here the point for consideration is that why should we kill or take lives of so many living beings only to strengthen our own body? A civilised man will never like to make his own stomach 'a cremation place' or a burial ground. When we can easily satisfy our hunger by vegetarian diets and food stuffs, why should we adopt the path of Himsa for this? Complete nourishment of body is possible by vegetables and vegetarian diet.
स्वच्छन्दवन जालेन, शाके नापि प्रपूर्यते । अस्य दग्धोदर स्यार्थे का कुर्यात् पातकं महत् ॥
