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things that you use daily. Take the example of soap. You know which soap can be used to wash clothes. Which is the best soap for washing clothes? Which soap does not harm the skin of the body ? and which soap cleans the body well ? That means you know only the efficacy of soap. Do all people know how soap is made ? Do they know which chemicals and subtances are used to make soap and in what proportion they are mixed? Do all people think of these things? They are concerned only with the uses or efficacy of soap. Another example may be taken. You may take the example of the light in your house. You press the switch and the light flashes out. You need light; and by pressing the switch you get light. This knowledge of the light is enough for you. Whether you have a knowledge of electricity is not important. All people do not know how electricity is produced; and how it travels to your house; and they are also not interested in knowing it. Only a few people have the curiosity and the intelligence to know the nature and form of anything.
Once, there was a girl. She used to drink milk every morning. One morning, when she did not get milk, she began crying. Her mother asked her why she was weeping. The girl said, "I am hungry. Please give me some milk to drink.” The mother said, "The milk-man who brings cow's milk has not yet come today. I will give you milk as soon as he comes." The mother always used to give her daughter cow's milk to drink. The girl wanted only milk and she did not care whether it was cow's milk or buffalo's milk. She said to her mother, "Even this is milk though it may be a buffalo's milk or sheep's milk or cow's milk. Whatever milk there is, give it to me. I am very hungry". The girl was very hungry and in order to appease her hunger, she was asking for milk because she knew only the effect of milk. She knew that milk satisfied hunger, she did not know the benefits or bad effects of cow's milk or buffalo's milk nor was she interested in knowing those things.
SINLESSNESS IS THE CAUSE OF ALL FELICITIES
In this world, all people desire happiness. All the endeavours made by Jivas have for their aim only happiness, whether
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