Hunger pains allow all food to become deliciously edible and thirst pains allow all drinks to become deliciously drinkable. This is possible because hunger and thirst pains shadow the original taste of food and drinks. In this way, we are able to consume the most rotten of things when plagued by pain.

Therefore, it is all the more vital to be aware of what we ingest, especially when we're in hunger or in thirst, whether in bodily terms or in worldly ambitions. For is not hunger and thirst also extended to our heart's desires?

A person in thirst for drink becomes drunk on whatever sludge available, and likewise, a person in thirst for power wrongfully abuses their own. As time passes and their original sanity restores, the person will realize their errors of drunkenness and wrongful misconduct. However, these regrets and epiphanies come forth only after hundreds of criticisms.

The conclusion, we must first empty our thirsts.