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The merchant advised
A person who is adamant on his false ideas even in face of good tidings and continues to stick to evil,
ends up like this.
രവ
ebon
000
O
There is no use lamenting over spilt milk.
Still the merchant took out a few gold coins from his pocket and gave him
Why! Would you accept these gold coins now, or not?
Sir, my hollow
inflexibility destroyed me.
Go
mos
THE END
Great sages have said
A man may accept untruth in his state of ignorance. But if he does not accept the truth when revealed, just out of his inflexibility, dogma and conceit, he repents like this in the end.
Source-Raj-prashniya Sutra:
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