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Kapil Muni
Choose one of the terms below and complete the statements
bless
gold
accumulation detachment greedy kingdom omniscience two
amused earning happiness luxuries Shrävasti veranda
contentment grant Kashyap moon
Indradatt Manorama Shridevi
sun
1. Kapil was the son of_
Shastri and 2. Being an only child he was brought up in great
and did not pay attention to his studies. 3. His mother sent him to
to study with 4. There he met a Brahmin widow
and fell in love with her. 5. When they needed more money to run the house Kapil was not money. 7. The king of Shrävasti gave
grains of
_ to the first person who blesses him everyday. 8. He decided to wake up early and go to
the king and make some quick money. 9. Upon repeated failures he decided to sleep out on the of his house. 10. When he saw the rising.
he thought it was the 11. When the king found out about his mistake he was very The king told Kapil that he would Kapil anything that he asked for. 12. On thinking of what he could ask for Kapil thoughts went wild. He went from wanting 2 grains of gold to wanting the whole 13. Kapil was shocked at how he could get so
and starting going in reverse gear back to 2 grains of gold. 14. These thoughts made him realize that the more a person gets the more he desires to get. The sense of
_knows no limits!" 15. He realized that
does not come from greed but from 16. As soon as realized that he felt a sense of material things and attained
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