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get hungry, they experience the pain of hunger, but that pain is
quelled as soon as they get something to eat. They do not have
any greed. Only humans have greed. They not only consume
what is in their own pasture, but they raid the neighbor’s
pastures too. Miseries arise out of greed.
A human being runs to the doctor when his leg is hurting.
Do birds and fish have doctors? They just have to suffer. Do
they indulge in any sensual pleasures (Vishay)? They eat
because of the instinct to eat, but they do not indulge in the
pleasures of the tongue. If they had pleasures of eating and
drinking, they too would have toothaches or would have to wear
glasses. Animals too have problems with old age, but they have
to suffer them silently.
Farmers make their bullocks work all day long but they
put a muzzle around the bullocks’ mouths so that they would not
graze on their farms. A bullock understands that he is not
allowed to eat. One farmer in his eagerness to watch a movie
at night put down some nice grass for his bullock to eat but
forgot to take the muzzle off. What can the poor bullock do? He
felt the hunger pangs but what could he do? Whom could he
tell? The farmer returned from the movies late at night and went
straight to bed without checking on his bullock. The bullock
kept stomping his feet on the ground all night long. In the
morning when the farmer woke up, he realized that he had
forgotten to remove the muzzle!
Life is like that of a bull working in an oil mill
For countless lives, man has worked like a bull in an oil
mill and what has been his reward? A slice of oil cake! After a
grueling day at work, the man gets to eat some handvo (heavy
dry spicy bread) at night, and the bull in the oil mill gets a slice
of an oil cake! One has suffered a lot of misery. He has suffered
endlessly just like the bull. They invite all kinds of imaginary
miseries again. This is like people who send out wedding