According to the Bible, drug abuse (NSA – Nasha) is considered a sin. The Holy Scripture says that our body is the temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:19-20), and it is our duty to keep it pure and holy. When a person uses drugs, they damage their body, which goes against God’s will.
Drug abuse not only causes physical harm such as liver damage, heart problems, and mental illness, but it also affects a person’s mental and spiritual life. The Bible teaches that drug use leads a person away from truth and pushes them toward sin (Proverbs 20:1).
Drugs can destroy a person’s family, social, and financial life. The individual starts neglecting responsibilities, which creates cracks in relationships. The Bible also says we must stay alert because the devil roams like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8).
Freedom from addiction and living a holy life is the true path according to the Bible, through which a person finds peace, joy, and the grace of God.
Whether intoxication is of alcohol, hemp, opium, heroine etc, it
will become a cause of your total destruction. First of all, intoxica
tion makes one a devil. Then it destroys the body. There are four
important organs of the body: – 1. Lungs, 2. Liver, 3. Kidneys, and 4.
Heart. Alcohol first of all destroys these four organs. Hemp completely
destroys the brain. More than alcohol, heroine makes one’s
body hollower. Opium weakens one’s body. It stops functioning. It
functions only when charged with opium. The blood gets polluted.
Therefore, these intoxicants should not even be kept in the village
or city, let alone at home. One should not even think of consuming
them.
A person used to work at Palam Airport in Delhi. This dates
back to year 1997. At that time, his monthly wage was twelve thou
sand rupees. This Das (Rampal Das) went to deliver Satsang in a
village in Delhi. There an old woman along with her three grand
daughters came to the house where satsang was being held. She
was a paternal aunt of those who were holding the satsang. She used
to live in a house on a plot on the outskirts of the village. That man
who used to work at Delhi Airport was her son. He used to drink a
lot of alcohol. He had ruined his home. He used to beat his wife and
children because every day he would come home drunk, and his
wife used to object him; a Mahabharat used to take place every
day. His wife leaving the children behind, went to her mother’s house.
The grandmother took care of the children, and then she herself
went and counselling her daughter-in-law brought her back. On that
night, the old woman had come with her granddaughters and daugh
ter-in-law because the Satsang was at her own elder brother-in-law’s
house. Therefore, she had to come. In Satsang (spiritual discourse),
lecture is given on every aspect. First, the benefit of doing bhakti of
God and the harm of not doing it is told, which is explained in detail.
That day, the drunkard first went to his house. When he did not find
anyone at home, he sat there for a while. Then a neighbour told him
that – “Your mother has gone to your elder paternal uncle’s house
with the entire family. A Satsang is going on there. They will all have
food there itself.” It was God’s wish; he also went to the satsang,
and sat at the rearmost end because he was drunk.
Satsang statements: – It was told in the Satsang that after at
taining a human life, a person who does not perform auspicious deeds,
his future becomes a hell. He who intoxicates, his present and fu
ture both are hell. Intoxication is not for human beings. It turns a
human being into a devil. Those people, who had performed virtu
ous deeds in their previous lives, have a good job or a good business
in their current lives as a result of those virtuous deeds. If in the
present life, they will not perform auspicious deeds, bhakti, charity
and meritorious deeds, they will suffer in future births by becoming
a donkey, dog, pig, or ox, and will eat rubbish.
Like, in a human (man/woman) life, based on the previous auspi
cious deeds, one has got good food. One has obtained a good human
body. Whenever one wishes, one can eat. If one feels thirsty, one
can drink water. If one wishes, one can drink milk or tea. One can
eat fruit or dry fruit (cashew nuts-almonds). If after acquiring a Com
plete Guru, you do not do bhakti with a pure heart, did not serve in
a Satsang, did not perform charity or meritorious deeds, then you
will suffer misery in the next lives of donkey, ox, or dog. Neither will
you get food on time, nor water, nor will you have any means to
protect yourself from heat, cold or insects and flies. In human life,
you protect yourself with mosquito net and ‘Allout’ mosquito repel
lent. You have found ways of protecting yourself from heat, but what
will you get when you will become an animal? Sant Garibdas ji has
described the knowledge gained from Supreme God Kabir ji in this
way :
Garib, nar seti tu pashuva keejae, gadha bael banaayi |
Chhappan bhog kahan man borey, kuradi charne jaai ||
Meaning: – After leaving the human body, a person who is de
void of bhakti and auspicious deeds attains the life of a donkey, ox
etc. Then one will not get the food that one gets in human life. Be
coming a donkey, one will eat rubbish from the heap of garbage. If
one becomes an ox, a nose-rope will be threaded into the nose. One
will be tied with a rope. Neither will one be able to drink water on
feeling thirsty, nor will one be able to eat food on feeling hungry.
One will have a tail to protect oneself from flies and insects. Con
sider it to be a cooler, fan or mosquito net. Those living beings, who
have accumulated excessive sins, in the animal life even their tail
gets severed. Only a stump of one to one and a half feet is left. One
keeps rotating it.
