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to his assurance. One day, he may also compel his wife to drink wine and between them there will appear conflicts and misunderstandings and anguish. If such disparate people marry without caring for the parity of this kind of purity, their married life will be miserable. The wife may have to seek a divorce from her husband or she might be expelled from her husband's house or she might have to commit suicide.
Giving false assurances before marriage has become common now-a-days. How widely eggs are being used ? The government education includes the idea that eating eggs is proper. The propaganda in support of non-vegetarian food is going on very strongly. The government prohibits drinking liquors but drinking is becoming widespread. Drinking has become common among workers, members of wealthy families and students in colleges.
The present-day social and moral values are such that the people who eat meat and drink wine are not censured in society. In other words, society does not condemn them. The present-day society is dominated by wealthy people and people who are literate or who hold degrees; who deem it an honour to eat meat and to drink wine. There is no power in society that can stop them. The exhortations of spiritual heads can exercise a little effect, but even they are unable to check this growing evil. The situation has become so explosive that what remains to be done is that the individual has to save himself from these evils. It is proper that sensible people should save themselves from these evils without looking at others around them. . You must be very careful and cautious in this situation. If these evil habits have not crept into your life and into your families, you are fortunate. Be cautious in the future also. Do not allow these evils to enter your life under any circumstances.
PROPAGANDA IN SUPPORT OF NON-VEGETARIANISM IN THE NAME OF THE SO CALLED VEGETARIAN EGG
You advise your children and prevail upon them to keep off meat-eating and wine-drinking and not to eat even eggs.
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