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SEED, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Once a gentleman's son turned out to be contemptible. His relatives inquired thus of Jain Acharya Shri Bhuvanbhanusurishwarji "a mango tree gives mangoes and a babool, Acacia Arabia tree gives babool, then why did this honourable man's son turn out to be so dishonourable ?"
The Revered Saint gave a very witty reply. He said "from that same mango tree you also get stale leaves and from that same babool tree you also get good gum and wood for cleaning teeth – isn't it? A lotus grows in the same pond where insects and germs breed. Hence there is no law that an off-shoot of good has to be good”.
Then our Learned Guruji clarified further thus : 'in reality a mango produced by a mango tree is actually a same product of that tree. Similarly here the father was a human-being and the son is also born as a human-being. Hence there
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