{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38239.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38239.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38239.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n30. And this is said in Smriti also.\nThat in cases of need both he who knows and he who does not know may eat any food Smriti also states; compare e.g. 'He who being in danger of his life eats food from anywhere is stained by sin no more than the lotus leaf by water.'--On the other hand, many passages teach that unlawful food is to be avoided. 'Intoxicating liquor the Br\u00e2hmana must permanently forego;' 'Let them pour boiling spirits down the throat of the Br\u00e2hmana who drinks spirits;' 'Spirit-drinking worms grow in the\nmouth of the spirit-drinking man, because he enjoys what is unlawful.'","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Fourth P\u00e2da.: III, 4, 30","type":"page"}