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smearing soil-mud
is the shortness of intellect!
With respect to diet also some such thing is happening
taking tasteful, nourishing milk,
foods of ghee, creator of lustre and brilliance,
foods made with curd
preventor of untimely death,
generator of virtuous, peaceful feelingsmany types of such dainties have been ignored.
The result is that
the burning disease has become prevalent
and the seth has also caught it.
Taking the essenceless butter-milk
with the granular mash of great millet devoid of
vitality
is to invite poverty.
There is one thing more to say that
'one should be frugal in spending money, not extravagant,
should never be wasteful
416 Silent Soil
even in dream forgetfully. And,
if no spending.. best!'
This concept does not touch
the real nature of things.
The reason is that
in every substance
the expenditure is as much as is
