Traditional Hindus condemn it, however opinions vary depending on the sort of booze drunk.
Drinking beer, wine, and distilled spirits ("foreign
liquor") is associated with embracing "foreign" Western ideals,
but drinking un-distilled, fermented beverages like "country liquor"
and toddy is associated with low-class conduct.
Drinking habits tend to reflect and perpetuate unfavorable
attitudes.
People who drink will typically complete the bottle in one
sitting and get inebriated, thereby "proving" that there is no such
thing as responsible drinking since booze is banned in polite society.
Despite widespread cultural opposition, there are a few
Hindu temples where whiskey is offered to the god on a daily basis.
As prasad, the sanctified food or drink that bears the
deity's benediction, the devotees also get wine.
In certain tantric religious practices, alcohol has also
been integrated into religious rites.
Tantra is a hidden ritual-based religious system founded on
the notion that everything exists in ultimate oneness.
To proclaim that the whole cosmos is one principle from a
tantric viewpoint implies that the adept must reject all dualistic conceptions.
Consuming the "Five Forbidden Things" (panchamakara) is one method to achieve this, purposefully breaching social
conventions prohibiting the intake of intoxicants, nonvegetarian cuisine, and
illegal intercourse.
This is always done in a precisely specified ritual
environment, with the intention of sacralizing what is not morally wrong.
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