Swami Dharmananda
Samen, 02.06.2006
Hundreds of people from all walks of life of Tohana travelled with Ahimsa Yatra and H.H. Acharyashree for thirteen Kilometres to reach Samen village. H.H. Acharyashree said, “A few days before, we were travelling in Punjab, and now we are in Hariyana. Landscape and dress have changed, but the pain of the mind did not change. We have seen fightings, crime and alcoholism.
In Hariyana, we also see that alcoholism is prevalent in same range. To have that kind of attachment towards anything is dangerous. In Punjab and Hariyana people have attachment towards alcoholism. Someone who is bound by anything becomes difficulties to come out of it. Therefore goes the saying that there cannot be greater pleasure than detachment and greater pain than attachment. That is why one should develop the power of renunciation. When it is growing, pleasure in life will be great."