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solitary place and thought :
"It is certain that my son Parvat and the royal prince Vasu will both go to hell. Ifsuch is their destiny, what is the benefit in giving them knowledge ? Giving them knowladge is as good as showing a mirror to a blind person, playing music before. a deaf person, weeping in wilderness, trying to grow lotus in stone, seeing sunrise in the west and raining in salty ground."
“Red water is that which quenches thirst; real brother is he who helps in misery; real son is he who gives peaceful rest to the father. Similarly, real teaching and real knowledge is that by which a. soul does not go to hell. Everything else is cheating. If my son Parvat and prince Vasu are destined to go to hell, there is no point in my remaining a householder. It is also useless to conduct this hermitage.”
With such thoughts revolving in his
