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also protested. Every person wished that the young man would get married and have children. When one finds that even one person is breaking the order of creation and going a different way, then it seems that the whole process of creation itself is in danger. Opposing benefits clash. The conflict between following an ascetic's life and a householder's life has been going on for a long time now. The conflict between truth and lies has been continual for a long time now. The man who speaks the truth always wishes nobody would tell lies. And the one who tells lies never wishes that anybody speak the truth. A thief will, forever, try to make everybody steal and not let anyone become a merchant, for in the former lies his mental comfort.
Nobody would have a nose
Listen to this story. There was once a man without a nose. People used to think of him as inauspicious. He was very sad. He was intelligent and so thought of doing something by which the whole world would become "nose-less". Then this idea of inauspicious and auspicious, good omen and bad omen would all come to an end. So one day he went to the market
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