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we waste time. We eat food made from one particular cereal and that, too, prepared in very little cooking oil. And yet we relish the food. Moreover, I don't carry on any business. That requires investment. And perhaps there would be loss in place of gain. So I sell fire-wood pulled from the drift of the river. Sometimes I gain a lot of wood. I hope to make the horn out of what I thus earn. Anyhow, I want to get the remaining horn made."
The king wondered at the stinginess of the man who lived a hard life to save money. In a few years the man died without fulfilling his desire. He was born in hell as a result of his stinginess and possessive instinct.
Possessiveness or Parigrah leads one to eternal damnation.
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