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Bottles were opened and all got drunk excessively. Immediately after this, there was another scene. Men and women selected their pairs and began to sing and dance, being intoxicated with wine. This was the respect that they had for their temple and this was their ideal type of worship. Their action was so foolish that even shame was ashamed and surprised to see it. Sometimes they fell senseless on the ground as they danced wildly and were trampled over by others who were intoxicated with wine. Their condition thus became very pitiable. Various kinds of feelings such as hatred, fear, pity, laughter, anger and surprise sprang up in the heart of Goshala, when he saw and heard of these things taking place in the temple. He tried to suppress his feelings for a time; but, at last, when he could not help he broke into laughter. The drunkards thought it to be an insult to themselves. They beat him severely and knocked him out of the temple. Goshala thought it to be a retaliation of his own Karmas and he had to lie out-side the temple shivering with cold. When bis limbs got benumbered and his teeth began to clatter with cold, some of the drunkards took pity on him and brought him in the temple. Three times did Goshala insult these men in one way or another; and three times was he cast out of the temple and again taken in. Indeed it was not possible for him to get rid of his habit. “It is easy to persuade and bring to the right path a man who is ignorant; it is much easier to persuade a man who possesses the knowledge of right and wrong; but it is never easy to persuade one who has a little knowledge, and who thinks himself to be the wisest of all. Fire can be extinguished with water; the sun-shine can be warded off with an umbrella;
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