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There was one mendicant. He had no pot to drink water. He had nothing. He was just walking around barefoot with only his hands. He had no place to live. So he went to aa potmaker, and he begged repeatedly, "Please give me a pot. I will use it for various purposed, so please give me." After 10 months of begging, the potmaker made him a pot and gave it to him. The mendicant took the pot, and he was looking at it, "I got a pot! I got a pot!" And he was dancing this way and that. But when he threw the pot up into the air in joy, he forgot to catch it. MORAL: This is an expression in South India - a beggar begged for a pot for 10 months, and when he got it he just played with it and broke it. This body is a pot. We beg for 10 months, and then we get the pot. Pregnancy lasts 9 months, and then in the 10th month we come out. But then when we get the pot - "Oh I got a pot! I got a pot!" And we engage in sense gratification and then "Phut!" And then one gets another pot.
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