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Drugs

The most ancient book in the world is the Rig Veda, and it is full of drug use. The name of the drug is soma. Since those ancient times all the religions have tried to get people not to use drugs. It is nothing new, it is as ancient as man. There has never been a time when man was not in search of escape. All the governments have been against drugs.

 

Yet drugs have proved more powerful than governments or religions, because nobody has looked into the very psychology of the drug user. Man is miserable. He lives in anxiety, anguish and frustration. There seems to be no way out except drugs. The only way to prevent the use of drugs will be to make man joyful, happy, blissful.  Drugs help you to forget your misery for a time being.  It does not prepare you to fight misery and suffering, rather it weakens you.

 

Drugs destroy your inner growth towards spirituality. You remain hanging around the hallucinations, while you are capable of reaching the real. They give you a toy.  But since drugs are not going to disappear, there should be scientific lab, to purify drugs, to make them healthier, without any side effects, which is possible now. We can create a drug like the one in the Rig Veda, called soma, which will be without any bad effects, which will not be addictive, which will be a joy, a happiness, a dance, a song.

 

So first purify the drug of all bad effects. Second, let people who want to enjoy, enjoy. They will become bored by it. And then their only path will be to seek some method of meditation to find the ultimate bliss.

 

Drugs are destructive to the body, to the brain; soon addicts  are absolutely helpless. Addicts cannot live without drugs, and with drugs there is no space in life for them.  The people who are in power go on doing— prohibition, punishment. They know that for ten thousand years we have been prohibiting, and we have not succeeded. If you prohibit alcohol more people become alcoholic, and a dangerous kind of alcohol becomes available. Thousands of people die by poisoning.  If a person has taken a drug or has been addicted to a drug he needs treatment he should be sent to a psychiatric home where he can be taken care of, where he can be taught meditation, and slowly, slowly can be directed from the drugs towards something better.

 

 

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