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14 Vol. II/No. 4. Eternal Wisdom busy with state affairs. Shortly thereafter, the same poor man comes to your city but you're not able to meet him due to your preoccupations. So the poor man thinks; "The other day, the man who met me. could not have been a king, because, were he really was, the king, why is he not meeting me and relieving me of this burden of poverty as per his promise ?" "Surely O King, this thinking of the poor man is most obviously unreasonable and wrong." "Similarly, just because your mother has not come from heaven to tell you what it is like there, you cannot say that there is no heaven - to think otherwise would also be unreasonable and hence improper." "Further is said in the scriptures : "pricht, "Sankatadiwwapema, विसयपसत्ताऽसमत्तकतन्वा / Wisaya-pasattasamattakatawwa; अणहीणमणुअकज्जा, Anahina-manuakajja, नरभवमसुहं न इंति सुरा॥ Nara-bhawam-asuham Na Inti Sura. Chattaripanch-joyana चत्तारिपंचजोयणसयाई गंधो य मणुअलोगस्स। उड़े बच्चइ जेणं, an atau preifa 11" Sayaim Gandho Ya Manucilogassa; Uda ham Wachchai Jenam, Na Hu Dewa Tena Awanti." a "Deeply attached to the delectable pleasures of heaven; thoroughly absorbed in the enjoyment of the senses and sense - objects; not free from various things to do and always occupied with something to do; and being completely of freewill in regard to their behaviour towards humans - the denizens of heaven are independent and so they do not come down to this world of humans. Furthermore,