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pills so that they might easily digest the food they had eaten. When the Seth offered them the pills, the pundits said, "But there is no place for these pills in our stomachs. If there was so much space we would have eaten one more sweet each."
They were taken to their houses with great difficulty. in their house they smoked qanja because it is believed that ganja-smoking helps digestion. After having smoked ganja they strolled out in the evening. It was a splendid moonlit night. They went to the Ganga with the purpose of sailing on the river in a boat and if possible visiting Gokul. They thought they would enjoy the delight of rowing on the river and that it would also help them to digest the food they had eaten. Both sat in a boat ; kept moving the oars throughout the night. The day dawned. They thought that they had reached Gokul because throughout the night they were rowing the boat. When they saw the commotion and the crowds on the bank they believed that they had reached Gokul. They asked the people there, ''Where are we now?"
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They replied, 'Why? You are in Mathura." scholars exclaimed, "What a fun; How can it be ?"
The two scholars had been rowing the boat no doubt but they had not released it from the bank where it had been anchored. They had forgotten to release it and in their intoxication, they kept rowing the boat. All their efforts were wasted.
Our life also is of the same kind. Our life is a boat, the samsar is the river, moksha is our destination. We keep rowing the boat of our life without releasing it from attachments and hatred with which it is anchored to samsar. All our austerities and endeavours will be futile and fruitless, If we do not discard our attachments and hatred. If we, in our ignorance, remain bound by attachments and hatred and if while we are still in that bondage,
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