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births and re-births to the extent of 84 lacs in number. If you want to be delivered take resort to some saintly person or else messengers of death shall just arrive.” The meaning conveyed to the disciple was: “The owner of this grove has just arrived, so collect and pack up sugar-canes soon."
If this religious song stopped here, the farmers would leave and the disciple would be doomed. So he recited one more line of the song "Lambe ho to chhote kar lo Kar lo guptadhari”. With this line he conveyed to the farmers, "If your journey is protracted since the times immemorial then shorten it by devoting yourself to the saintly person. You have expanded your activities very much in this life which is short. As a result, you do not find time for religious practices. Therefore curtail these activities and exact time for prayers and religious practices." The other meaning was “If sugar-canes are long enough, make small pieces and pack them up in a bag before anyone comes to know about it.”
The monk played wonders. On one hand he was preaching philosophy to the farmers and on the other hand he was trying to save his disciple from the calamity. He recited his prayer further.
"Charma daski mar padegi, Puja hogi thari”. With this line he conveyed to the farmers, “If you do not contact saintly persons, you will have to assume the birth of animals and you will be belaboured with a whip.” The monk warned the disciple with this line thus, "Now do not delay, lest the farmers shall arrive and you will be hammered with a stick."
The monk thought that with these words the disciple would realise the situation and would leave the sugar-cane grove, but the disciple did not leave the grove. So he recited one line further “Ander Pooja thari Hoghi Bahar Hogi Hamari.”
With these words he gave such an advice to the farmers that if they did not come in contact with the saintly persons and did not refrain from committing sins they would be punished by denizens of hell and if the monks did not preach them, they would be punished by persons like them in the lower births of animals. For the disciple it was a clear warning that he should then make no further delay and the preceptor monk also would be taken to task.
The disciple was very shrewd. He uprooted about a dozen of sugar-canes, made their pieces and packed them up in the bag.
