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his father's life. However, even though the judge had shown mercy in his court, he never learned the secret formula for the herbal medicine that had cured and transformed his father.
The meaning of this story is that old age and sickness can be changed by the right medicine. Through our work, our thinking, our food, and our desire, we invite old age to come into our bodies and minds and to control us. We may not possess the knowledge of certain herbs but we do know the sounds that can remove sadness and give happiness and health to a person. Greed, possessiveness and attachment to the things of life, can only make us sick, anxious and unfree in our thoughts and actions. You must learn to give up what makes you sick and unhappy if you are to remain young and healthy in your mind and body. If you do mantra or speak divine sounds and think only good thoughts, then you will become completely full of the divine nectar of happiness.
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