Part 4
Occasionally, Naroo would
think about all these things and has started realizing that drinking
is not a good habit. By his drinking, neither he was doing any good
for the society nor for his family or himself. Naroo decided to get
out of this habit but now it was too late. Naroo was unable to do
without drinking.
Naroo decides to meet one
of his friends who was a practicing psychologist. There they discuss
about vices and wonder why some people are addicted while many others
can live without any bad habit. Naroo's friend tells him that such
vices are required by persons who are highly emotional in their
nature. Because of being emotional they need some sort of support to
protect them from life's awkward experiences. Generally such people
are afraid of failures, insults, challenges, competitions in life. By
vices such person tries to run away from reality. He after telling
this scientific explanation asked him what bothers him so that he
should continue in drinking? Naroo contemplating on this question
told him that it is true that he is highly emotional by nature and
things happening around can disturb him so that he feels like
drinking to avoid memories of those events. If he sees something
wrong happening in the surrounding places he feels like drinking to
forget those things. Naroo asked his friend if it is possible for a
person to be non-emotional? His friend told him that a person is
either emotional type or non-emotional type and it is not possible
for an emotional type to be non-emotional type by any way. This
revelation discouraged Naroo deeply and there while in the company of
his friend, he felt like need for a drink. At that his friend told
him that addiction is also possible in case of some things such as
alcohol, tobacco, opium and similar things. Finally his friend told
him that the only way to come out of this is to practice yoga. That
meeting was over after Naroo promised his friend that he will try to
practice Yoga. Unfortunately Naroo could not understand how to
practice true Yoga, whatever he practiced was only an exercise called
Hattayoga. What yoga he should have practiced was dnyanyoga that
improves mental status of the person. He never got proper guide and
as a result he continued to drink and could never come out of it. He
was condemning himself at the failure of his attempts to stop
drinking.
Days and years passed and
a time came when Naroo was totally overcome by the habit of drinking.
His father had become very old and not capable of doing any of his
usual performance was spending most of his time in meditation. One
day at night after the meals when all the members of the family of
Naroo were sitting together and chitchatting about thing around,
Naroo’s wife Sumitra told that she had gone to a temple of Kali on
the outskirts of the town to meet her friend she saw people carrying
a woman in a very bad condition to the temple. Out of curiosity she
followed the crowd and entered the temple of Kali which is managed by
the high priest of the Shakta cult and saw that, that woman was
suffering from some sort of unusual fits. She inquired about the
matter and was told by another woman from the crowd that the woman
was supposed to be haunted by her dead husband. On further inquiring
Sumitra came to know that her husband was a drunkard. Sumitra
frightfully asked Duttprasad about how such things ever happen to
these lower class people. With a sad smile on the face of Duttprasad
he whispered to the family, “this is not the question of a lower
class or higher class people, Sumitra, this can happen to any body.
Even in our respected family there is a drunkard.” Looking to
Naroo. Sumitra realized her mistake and silently moved from that
room. Her father-in-law was correct in that. “We humans are higher
class or lower class, all these classifications depend upon our
virtues and vices. If in so-called higher class people vices enter
then that becomes lower class.” he completed. Naroo understood that
taunt and immediately reacted by asking with a challenge in his
voice, “how to decide what is virtue and what is vice” ? “there
are decent vices are there not”? retorted Naroo to his father.
Duttprasad did not say anything on that. He was pondering over
something. Then he said to Naroo,
“Please, do not get
annoyed at what I said”. Duttprasad replied. “I just wanted to
correct your Sumitra, it is not good to condemn people as lower class
from the appearance of those people. Many great saints are born of
these societies. How can we call them lower class?”
Story continues in
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