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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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A MERCHANT AND A THIEF
There was a wealthy merchant who had engaged two very strong guards named Mulla and Kaji to guard his wealth. On one night the merchant slept in his house while the guards slept outside.
In the meanwhile two thieves arrived who started breaking through a wall of the house. The merchant and his wife woke up but could not utter anything lest the thieves might finish them to death. The merchant longed to guard his wealth at any cost, so he loudly asked “Are you awake ?” She replied “Of course”.
The merchant said, "I had a dream. We got a son and we named him Mulla. After sometime, we got another son who was named Kaji and we got at last the third son whom we named Chora (Thief). All the three sons were mischievous and who very often left the house. I had to call them very often thus, "Mulla, Kaji, Chor, Mulla, Kaji, Chori'”.
Thus the merchant very often called out loudly "Mulla, Kaji, Chor". The thieves knew that the merchant described the dream but he had skilfully schemed out the plan. Mulla and Kaji got up and they caught hold of the thieves and let them released after a good beat.
Thus we should also catch hold of the thieves who have entered our Soul, and then only our Soul would be freed from all miseries to enjoy eternal bliss.
DISMISS FALSE-BELIEF
Just study well what our great men have laid down to dismiss false-belief. "With a view to earn religious merits you may undergo any physical torture, or self restraint or spend any amount of wealth but all that is useless and futile if you have false-belief, Beware of false-belief. Dismiss false-belief.
A person holding false belief, performing various religious ceremonies, having renounced relatives and dear ones ; feeling himself content that he has acquired religious merits having undergone various types of physical tortures, cannot cross over the worldly ocean just as a blind chief of an army cannot vanquish the army of the adversaries.
