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A certain boatman was troubled by the idea that the operation of pulling at the cord for towing his boat was a miserable job involving great hardships, inasmuch as it required him to trudge painfully along must uneven ground, over thorn and brambles which often stuck into the bare soles of his feet. Therefore if he could manage to get rich somehow he would be in a position to tug at his cord by bestriding quilts and mattresses which he would take care to spread over either bank of the river. The boatman was so foolish that he intended to carry all the miserable pursuits of his poverty-stricken state into the condition of affluence. The consideration that if he could get rich , it might not be necessary for him to tug at the cord at all would not penetrate his foolish head. MORAL: We carry our concept of life in the material world over into the spiritual world, thinking that it will be the same here. However, when one attains the wealth of spiritual existence, there is no need for him to suffer any more.
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