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was mismanaged. One of these days the lazy man got so much drunk that he placed the pitcher on his shoulders and danced wildly. He fell to the ground and the pitcher was smashed. Every kind of pleasure the pitcher had created suddenly disappeared. His friends too lost all their wealth that they had obtained through the pitcher. Once again the man fell into dire adversity.
If only he had mastered the magic art which the candāla was ready to teach him and not gone in for the pitcher, things would not have come to this pass but almost as a rule people who are averse to knowledge feel fascinated only by its fruit and come to grief like this.
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