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and does not do any protest ! But this Cart fall of wood...?”!
One of the friends replied; “Prince honourable ! This man is dead.”
The prince was surprised : Dead ? What is this dieing for
The Companion replied : “The power which enables us to laugh and to weep, to walk and to talk, to think, when dies away, the man dies. To die mens to be destroyed. Now this man has no soul. Only his lifeless body has remaimed. The body means an empty Cage. When the parrot flies away from the Cage, the Cage becomes empty. The soul of a man is like a parrot. It has flown away from the body of this man. Now people will burn the body of this man. These persons who weep are his relatives. They weep because of the the pain of separation."
Then Samaraditya asked : “Friend,
