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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
The voting was held and none sided with the old chief. It was held with overwhelming majority that they should continue their stay in the royal palace as usual.
The old monkey on seeing this state of affairs was deeply pained and he having abandoned the palace retired to the forest. He was ridiculed as a great fool by the rest of the monkeys.
Now after a few days it so happened as the old monkey did udge with his foresight. The cook flung a burning log of wood at the sheep and the burning sheep bleating entered the horseshed where it rolled on the grass catching fire to spread round. Many horses were burnt to death and some of them were seriously injured with burns. The veterinary physician prescribed fresh fat of monkey for application. The King was pleased to find the remedy easily available at hand. He ordered for the mass massacre of monkeys. The royal servants stoned and hammered the monkeys to death and cured the horses with their fresh fat.
In life also, many times we cannot follow the voice of majority. In family the voice of the head of the family is carried out and the rest of the members are superseded.
The opinion of many quack-doctors is set aside by qualified experienced doctors. The opinion of a skilled engineer is accepted in contradiction with that of hundred labourers.
Scriptures declare that the word of a man of learning overweighs the babling of thousands of fools. Thus the opinion of a man of learning must be accepted. The world abounds in fools and the learned are very few. The righteous are very few and the wicked are plenty in number. Therefore, there are all chances of being led astray and degraded if the majority is respected in matters of religion.
It is not a proper and reasonable trend of people to follow what is followed by many. What is truly beneficial and conducive to welfare is only to be followed and not otherwise despite the fact that it is followed by the few.
RELIGION—THE SHELTER OF THE HELPLESS
You shall have to resort to religion if you aspire to break off the bonds of karmas, or escape from the influence of Karmas.
