A husbandman was watering a sugarcane field the whole of a day.
After finishing his task he saw that not a drop of water had entered the field; all the water had gone underground through several big rat holes.
Such is the state of that devotee who, cherishing secretly in his heart worldly desires—of fame, pleasures, and comforts—and ambitions, worships God.
Though daily praying, he makes no progress, because the entire devotion runs to waste through the rat holes of his desires, and at the end of his lifelong devotion he is the same man as before, and has not advanced one step.
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