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APRIL, 1967
183
He eats crisp goat's meat, his belly grows, and his veins swell with blood—but he gains nothing but life in hell, just as the ram is only fed to be killed for the sake of a guest.
After having enjoyed pleasant seats, beds, carriages, riches, and pleasures, after having squandered his wealth which he had so much trouble in gaining, and after having committed many sins, he will, under the burden of his karman, and believing only in the visible world, be grieved in the hour of death like the ram at the arrival of a guest.
The Parable of the Deer
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As the swift deer, who are destitute of protection, are frightened here there is no danger, and not frightened where there is danger;
As they dread safe places, but do not dread traps ; they are bewildered by ignorance and fear, and run hither and thither;
If they did jump over the noose or pass under it, they would escape from the snare ; but the stupid animal does not notice it :
The unhappy animal, being of a weak intellect, runs into dangerous place, is caught in the snare, and is killed there :
So the fools dread the preaching of the Law, but they do not dread works, being without discernment and knowledge.
Shaking off greed, pride, deceit, and wrath, one becomes free from karman. This is a subject which an ignorant man, like a brute animal. does not attend to.
Those, who do not acknowledge this, will incur death an endless number of times, like deer caught in a snare.
The Parable of the Lotus
There was a lotus-pool containing much water and mud, very full and complete, full of white lotuses, delightful, conspicuous, magnificent, and splendid.
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