Passage 24

In English

Though many students have been attending this course for over twenty days, listening to several discourses on very important topics, some students are still not able to give up their previous bad habits. It will be a good augury for the future if you are able to shed the bad habits that you had before coming here. Here, in the morning and in the evening, the Name of the Lord is dancing on your lips. If the same tongue that is made sweet by the name of the Lord in the morning and in the evening is filled with the fire of the cigarette in the evening, then all the good effects are counteracted and wholly nullified. You must get rid of the bad habit of smoking. It spoils your health and damages your lungs, and doctors say that sometimes even cancer may be the result of smoking. Why should you continue this habit, which damages your beauty and also your health?