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' Even so you, Prince, silly and unintelligent, will meet with ruin and disaster in that you seek so senselessly after another world, even like that former caravan leader. They who fancy that they can believe whatever they hear, will meet with ruin and disaster, even like those carters. Renounce, Prince, this evil set of opinions ; renounce them, I say ! Let them not involve you long in bale and sorrow ! ' 24. ' Even though Master Kassapa says this, I still cannot bring myself to renounce this evil set of opinions. King Pasenadi the Kosalan knows me, and so do foreign kings, as holding to the creed and the opinion that there is neither another world, nor rebirth other than of parents by human parentage, nor fruit or result of deeds well and ill - done. If I, master Kassapa, renounce these opinions people will say of me : " How silly is prince Payasi, how unintelligent, how badl y he grasps anything !" In wrath thereat will I keep to it. In guile will I keep to it. In self - respect will I keep to it ! ' 25. ' Well then, Prince, I will give you a simile, for it is by way of a simile that some intelligent men discern the meaning of what has been said. Once upon a time, Prince, a certain swineherd was going from his own village to another village. There he saw a heap of dry dung thrown away. Seeing it he thought : -