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After hearing this Bhagavan asked Saddal Putra
This question puzzled Saddal Putra.
For sometime he contemplated hard
Bhante, these pots are made automatically by force of fate. Where is the question, of endeavour and effort 2 200
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Have these pots been made as a result of an endeavour or work by someone, or on their own?
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If some one steals your pitchers or breaks them?
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After profound pondering he said with assumed gravity
Then he added philosophically
If someone does that I will punish him hard....
Have all these been made through endeavour? Where then does my fatalism stand?
And my preceptor says that whatever happens is fated. Endeavour is of no use....
In this world every event is predetermined. Whatever is fated) continues to happen automatically.
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