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  1. Why do people get into bad habits such as smoking and drinking alcohol? How can we make them realize the importance of sadhana, seva and satsang?

    See, people feel some lack or vacuum in their life, as if something is missing. To fill that gap, people try to forget themselves by latching on to intoxicants. You simply have to tell them that you can give them a better intoxicant, a much higher brand ...
  2. There is a widespread consumption of alcohol in society today. What can we do to curb this menace?

    Just bring them all to this intoxicating satsang. I promise you I will introduce them to such a high intoxicant (spirituality) that they will forget all these vices. So many people have left smoking, drinking and other vices after coming to the spiritua ...
  3. Gurudev, you say 'Accept People As They Are', but my husband drinks a lot and troubles the whole family. What to do?

    Even I am wondering what to do.So much is going on because of alcoholism. It has ruined the lives of millions of people. Millions of families are troubled because of alcoholism.You bring him here. We will get him intoxicated in a different manne ...
  4. Gurudev, we see a lot of alcoholism is going on. How do we save our health and mind from alcohol?

    See, Gujarat is the first state where beef and alcohol, both are banned. And slowly similarly every province should start banning alcohol. And at same time, we should start teaching happiness programs in all villages, and in all the slums. This will defini ...
  5. Sex, drugs, alcohol, how does one escape them? They are all over the place.

    Just this thought that we want to escape and pull people out of it, will do it. Today, can you all take a vow that you will not even turn and look in that direction? If someone is even tempted, send them to me, or to any of our YES!+ teachers. They wi ...
  6. Gurudev, today alcoholism is the biggest challenge to move towards spirituality, and a safer society. However, in these two days of the Corporate Culture & Spirituality conference, nobody spoke about it. Please guide us.

    We tell people that we have a greater type of intoxicant here – meditation, singing, and serving. This is a better intoxicant; it takes you to a greater height. People simply don’t know of this brand of whisky, that’s all. There i ...
  7. There are some people who say, 'A little bit of wine is okay, even Lord Shiva had wine'. How do we tackle such statements?

    People do whatever they want to do and they put it in the name of religion, or God to justify themselves. Simply look at your life, forget about others. If Shiva had alcohol, he must have had problems as well. See those five people who did that t ...