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CHAPTER NINE beaaty, fame, intelligence, and wealth disappear like various bright designs from a floating cloud. The wine-drinker dances constantly as if possessed by a demon and wails repeatedly like a sorrowful person; he rolls repeatedly on the ground like one suffering from a burning fever. Hālā 250 causes a relaxation of the body, injures senses, and causes a deep swoon, like the hālāhala.251
Discernment, self-control, knowledge, truth, purity, compassion, tolerance--all perish from wine, like straw from a spark of fire. Many creatures originate in liquids; therefore, wine must not be drunk by one afraid of causing injury. That which was given was not given; what was taken was not taken; what was done was not done—the wine-drinker speaks as he likes, indeed, as if from sovereignty over liars. In the house or outside or on the road, the wine-drinker, his mind confused, takes other people's property, having snatched it away, unafraid of execution, imprisonment, et cetera. Suffering from intoxication from wine, at once he enjoys other men's wives-- very young, young and old, a Brāhmaṇī or Candāli.
Shouting, singing, resting on the ground, running, angry, pleased, weeping, laughing, standing straight, bending, roaming, staying in one place, the wine-drinker is an actor, the king of the wicked. Even though drinking wine frequently, the winedrinker is never satisfied, always devouring a multitude of creatures, like Křtānta. Wine is the cause of faults, wine is the cause of calamities; therefore, one should avoid wine, like a sick person avoiding improper food.
Meat-eating (323–333)
One who wishes to eat meat from killing animals pulls up the root, called compassion,' of the tree of dharma. One who wishes to eat meat and wishes to show compassion, wishes to plant a creeper in a blazing fire. The killer of meat, the
250 314. A spirituous liquor.' MW. 251 314. A deadly poison.
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