Gurmat view on intoxicants
Wine, alcohol, recreational drugs (like marijuana, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, PCP) and other intoxicants (like inhalants, gases, aerosols, or solvents, glue, etc) used with the intention of creating or enhancing recreational experience are condemned by the Sikh Gurus. These users of drugs are wasting their lives on the planet by living in an illusionary state. The Guru support the person who stays alert and aware away from all types of intoxicants; Gurbani states in the Guru Granth Sahib that "Those who do not use intoxicants are true; they dwell in the Court of the Lord.(1)" (SGGS p 15)
Drugs commonly considered capable of recreational use include alcohol and tobacco, and drugs within the scope of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Psychopharmacologist Ronald K. Siegel refers to intoxication as the "fourth drive", arguing that the human instinct to seek mind-altering substances (psychoactive drugs) has so much force and persistence that it functions like the human desire to satisfy hunger, thirst and the need for shelter.[1]
- Gurmat is against Paan Supari, or Intoxicant related to Tobacco. Other religions are also against items related to tobacco.
- About Alcohol, poppy and other drugs Gurbani have no direct attack on them, as gurus knew that these are also used for medicinal purposes, but guru sahib said Excess in everything is bad and the thing, which person taking makes him feel uncomfortable and results to miseries is not more then bad. So if alcohol is being taken in huge quantities and it is root cause of quarrel and person who is taking is uncomfortable then it's bad.
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