Frankenstein Monster
Nature’s drink is water. Banefully artificial drinks are Coffee and Tea. Coffee has come out of the ingenuity of man’s brain. Born out of man’s ingenuity it tries to destroy its creator like the Frankenstein Monster.
Bhasmasura wanted to lay his hands on Shiva’s head, though the power he had to burn whatever he laid his hands on, was given to him only by Shiva! Bhasmasura had at least the merit of austerities. Even that merit is lacking in Coffee. Coffee has no doubt come out of Austerity, the Thapas! The bosses of the Coffee plantations do really perform Thapas for amassing great wealth and in the sacrificial fire of their desire these had poured in the sweated labour and blood of the poor! Out came from this Thapas, the great terror to the health, this Coffee seed!
Satanic Fire
Born out of tyranny, grown out of tyrannized labour and giving a tyrranical end to its addicts is this Satanic Fire, Coffee. In ancient mythology, the Lord came in the form of beautiful Mohini to enslave Basmasura and make him lay his hand on his own head and burn himself. But this Coffee is so clever that it would enchant the very Mohini and live through! Tea is no better than this Coffee.
The great delusion
The attraction of Coffee and Tea is a great delusion. Coffee brings on coronory disorders and harms also the liver. No one can say why or how. The Lord’s Maya of the great Creation may not even compare to this Coffee Maya! Perhaps Mother Earth unable to bear the ever growing human burden created this thing to reduce Her burden! What a cruel product this great Mother is producing and sending out! This is not grown out of the rain from the skies. This seed had come out fat from the blood of millions of slave labour!
The tears of the poet Bharathi
The great patriot poet of Tamil Nadu had wrung out of his heart, excrutiating lines painting the suffering of the millions in the plantations. Have we so soon forgotten the tears of the poet and his agonising verses? There are people, no doubt fashionable human beings who hear these immortal lines of inexplicable suffering of the poor in gramaphone records in big Restaurants and with demonaic indifference sip decoction of the very drugs, the cause of all this human suffering!
Tit for tat
Let us not think that the Bharathiar’s songs do not talk of Coffee but only refer to the Tea Plantations! Perhaps the immortal poet must have found it impossible to string into verse the misery caused by this miserable product! Will the product produced under the lacerating whip of the slave supervisor, by the millions of the ill-clad, ill-fed, malaria weakened Indians, literally grown out of their tears, give in turn any benefit to its consumers? What you sow only can you reap! What grows out of misery will not give happiness. How many thousands of this tortured labourers would not have pronounced a curse on these drinking masters, whose perverted taste and insistent demand have lead to their enslavement, degradation and suffering! The coffee and tea produced out of these wretches certainly weak a terrible and slow vengeance on the health and life of the millions of drinkers.
Coffee perversion
Oh wise people, who mock at the drunkards of toddy and wine! They, the toddy-walas, grin their mouth to mock at your drunkenness. The Boozer says, ” I am a drunkard and you are a mad man mad after this intoxicating coffee!” Both are intoxicants. The wine kills respect, regard, family, wealth, etc. After this the ebbing away of life is no sacrifice! The coffee and tea will slowly kill. It will penetrate cleverly and destroy unknowingly.
The drinkers of Coffee and Tea who have read so far with suppressed wrath may now spring up in excitement! If one reads further this anger is bound to vanish.
Nervous breakdown
The most important in the human organism is the nervous system. Like the electric current the nerve energy pervades this nervous system. This is wasted in a blind fashionable life. Bad habits destroy this. Coffee and tea act as chief destroyers of whatever other habits may leave of this energy. Coffee and Tea swallow this nerve energy with great avidity from the very beginning. They just suck the essence and throw the remaining skin and bone to the Doctor.
Slaves of hotels
They destroy digestion. They give headache. Every function of daily life becomes enslaved to this drinking habit. Necessarily these enslave the drinkers financially to the Proprietor of the Coffee Hotels.
Seventh vice
Coffee only can facilitate evacuation of the bowels; that only can give that something called hunger! Sleep depends on this as well as the awareness of the brain and functioning of the limbs! When this narcotic is absent there is strike of all the work. Wise men have sung of the six vices of lust, greed, etc. Was there any necessity for the addition of a seventh vice, the Coffee and Tea habit?
Many poor families are ruined in an attempt to bolster up this habit. The small vessel even has to be pledged to enable the daily drink of this poison. For the money spent on this, grains and dhals could be purchased and full meals made available. It is difficult to escape this tyrant and survive.
NOT WANTED THIS COFFEE
Not food
Coffee and Tea are not food articles. There is no benefit to the system as from protein, calcium, vitamin, iron, etc. What little that could be found gets destroyed in its preparation and drinking. The quality is entirely lost.
Not essential
Without Coffee and Tea life can exist very well. Health can be maintained. Life will be very pleasant. Why then have these demons? Five or six decades ago the majority of our people had not heard of these vile products. And no unnameable diseases had begun attacking them.
Coffee is the I person in marriage
Even the children are administered this coffee by force. They plead that milk will cause indigestion! When one complains of the bitter taste of coffee he is treated as an uncivilised brute. The first person to deserve all consideration in a marriage is the coffee. After this is ceremoniously handed out then other ceremonies of feasting and ritual are adumbrated. Even the sacred Thali might be forgotten to be tied! The bridegroom and the Purohit could be appeased. But if one forgets of serve Coffee, everything will be finished and the marriage will end in a fiasco! The modern mother slaps the child who has read his class lessons on personal health, and forces him to drink this ubiquitous coffee even when he resists. It is a wonder as to why these mothers should dig the grave for their family’s health and happiness?
False pleasure
They say that coffee drunkards get a sort of energy and activity. They seem to get spirit to work vigorously! Even music it appears comes out of their lips! Perhaps! Ask the two-bottle toper! He will say that even streets fly in the sky for his sake! Who is to tell him of the flight of his family and fortunes in the famished skies! Ask the opium addict? He would reveal to you in secret that soon after taking the drug angles descend in naked beauty from heaven and immerse him in incalculable delights! He says that he gets a free ride to the heavenly abodes of Indra and Chandra!
Draining out Reserve energy
There is a reason for this apparent energy and delight. Coffee and tea are intoxicants. These stir up the reserve energy in man. This surfaced energy seems to smile for a time inducing extra outbursts of activity. This would be something like declaring dividend out of capital. Coffee and Tea declare dividends from the capital of Health and Longevity! When crises overtakes the business where would this reserve capital be? When disease catches hold of the system, that which ought to rush forward to protect, the Reserve Energy, has all been eaten away slowly by Coffee and Tea in dribblets of fanciful joy!
Coffee drunkards
No doubt we can see many persons who are coffee and tea addicts. Even if these drunkards have some real strength, who is to count how much these spend on other rich protective foods to make up the defects caused by they drinks? All the protective food, may protect these rice people, But what about Raman and Bose, who cannot manage one half meal to himself and his family everyday. Where could he go for ghee, butter, almonds, oranges, etc., to overcome the evil of this Coffee and Tea even to a slight extent?
“Are not the Europeans drinking Coffee and Tea? Are not these worshipped as minor divinities x i in the Arctic Circle?” may be questions thrown out by the quixotic. In those places the heat does not burn above and below. They do not see the sun for weeks and months together. Here both the sky and the earth burn with the daily heat due to the scorching rays of the sun. Why bury the third fire of Coffee and Tea? Those foreigners take to Coffee and Tea after having their indoor pastimes and outdoor games supported by good dinners.
Say good-bye to Coffee
Since this is a very bad persistent habit, It is not possible to give this up all of a sudden. Some drink this coffee even ten times a day. The number of drinks should first be reduced to only one or two drinks per day. Then the strength of the decoction should also be reduced. Later on one should try to take this on alternate days. In the end this can be stopped altogether. Some may find it possible to stop this all of a sudden. If this is possible it is also good.
The tongue could be deceived by using Soya Beens decoction. The Panakam and Butter-milk could be used as effective substitutes. The Tamilian is not under grip of Tea as much he is of Coffee.
They have segregated a poison product called caffeine from coffee. The medical scholars will explain how this caffeine kills life and organism. Many decades ago we had the influx of western doctors and our doctors trained in western medicine. Our doctors charmed by new drugs had directed certain changes. One such change introduced was the coffee habit.
The very same trained doctors advise the patients to give up this coffee and to take butter-milk! Now these patients have reached such a state that they could easily give up this advising Doctor but not the Coffee!
Many merchants of Coffee do not drink Coffee. The Coffee Hotel Proprietor will not eat his own preparations. He knows that these are ancient stuffs under new coatings. The merchant selling foreign-cloth would be found wearing the hand-spun and hand-woven cloth. All these know what is really good. But they do not scruple to give to others what they consider harmful to themselves.
The poverty ridden Society in India does not require this Coffee. Let this evil habit be given up.