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ful harvest of wheat; much more than what he needed. The blood of animals always keeps flowing through the pulses and blood vessels of human beings. As long as they get as much food and income as they need, the animality in their blood will be under control. As soon as men get more than what they need they lose all self-control and their blood becomes the blood of animals and makes them behave like animals. My objective was only to induce the farmer to taste wine and to become a drunkard. I brewed wine out of his own wheat and now in his blood vessels, the blood of jackals, wolves and pigs has begun to flow. If he becomes an addict to drinking, his animality will continue".
This story illustrates the harm that the evil of drinking can cause. If I should mention the truth with a special emphasis, I should say that the habit of drinking makes men behave like animals in this life. Moreover, drunkards would be born as animals in their next janma. In their later janmas, they will go to Narak (hell) and suffer endless torment there.
KEEP MEAT AND LIQUORS AT AN ARM'S LENGTH
If you want to live a happy life, and if you want to save yourselves from the direct and indirect evils, if you want to save yourselves from adversities and calamities in this world and in the other world, never allow these five evils to enter your life. If you want to live a peaceful, felicitous and blessed life; and if you want to carry out your spiritual austerities for your spiritual purification, without any fear or worry, do not even think of these five evils. Keep off those evils. Do not go to the places where those evils prevail. Do not read such literature as inspires people to take to those evils. With a heroic determination, keep off those evils and save yourselves from the disasters that attend upon them. Today, I am completing this discussion. Tomorrow, we shall consider the fourth ordinary principle of Grihasthadharma.
This is enough for to-day.
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