Wicked thinking

Meaning: According to the line of Rigved 8/2/12 — men with wicked thinking drink their favorite liquors and go on fighting within themselves and move naked here and there throughout the night. Therefore, good men should never drink liquor, even by mistake.

Message: One naturally doubts the intelligence of an intelligent man when he eats what should not be eaten and drinks what should not be drunk. Liquor, tobacco, and other poisonous materials when introduced in the body, always produce bad and painful side effects on the body and the person's nature. Based on the knowledge of the effect of these intoxicants, in all the countries, they are considered unnecessary and harmful. By imbibing them, the memory-power is adversely affected and laziness, neglect, impulsiveness, irritability, fear, excitement etc. increase. One, who drinks liquor or takes other intoxicants, will himself experience an increase in these faults within himself.

Intoxication produces a momentary excitement. Just as a horse gets excited with a whiplash, similarly drinking liquor initially excites the energy-reserves and therefore the drinker finds an initial surge of freshness, but in the end the result is fatal. By repeated whipping, the horse runs more than his capacity and gets quickly tired and dies. The same point applies to human body also. With the habit of taking liquor, tobacco etc the energy reserves of the body quickly get exhausted and premature ole age develops in youth itself. The body becomes hollow, lack luster, and becomes a museum of diseases. Because of his continuous bad breath, the people sitting nearby start hating such a person.

Bad habits make a man engaged in sinful acts. The habit of drinking liquor is the cause of bad tendencies and sins. Intoxication perverts the intelligence and an intoxicated man can commit any sin. In the absence of the knowledge of what he should do and should not do, he quarrels with everyone and he does not have any discretion about maintaining respect where due, Neither is he conscious about his mind nor body, nor clothes. Wandering here and there, not only does because his own downfall, but also makes hell like, his own and neighbors' lives.

Every year there is personal and national ruin to the tune of billions of rupees connected with the production of liquor, tobacco etc and their advertisement and sales promotion. If all this wealth is put to good use, then the level of man's health and life will improve and the development of villages and towns also will take place. If this vast capital can be employed in constructive works such as good planning, housing, textile production, animal husbandry etc, there will be no limits to the progress of our country.

All the religious preachers and great men of the world have condemned intoxication in any form and called it a sin. It excites taamasik thinking and also wicked and criminal actions. Intoxicated person do not feel any sense of shame in doing bad acts, and they do not feel ashamed of behaving in the uncontrolled manner. An intoxicated person's spiritual sensitivity diminishes. With all this knowledge, mankind is still keen on indulging in unnatural actions and spreading all round destruction.