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Same Interests

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One full moon night, a few people came to his small pub and drank and drank. He was very happy, earning great. And when they were leaving, he asked the man who was paying: ”Will you be coming again? We will do everything better.”

The man said, ”We are happy as things are, you have done them as beautifully as possible. Just pray for my business to run well and we will be coming every night.”
He said, ”There is no problem in it. I will pray for you every morning, every evening, every night. But just out of curiosity, I want to ask, what is your business?”
He said, ”It is better if you don’t ask. But I can understand, it will be difficult for you to resist the temptation. My business is to sell wood for funeral pyres. So when more people die, my business goes well; when less people die, of course it is unfortunate and I have to suffer it.

So if you want your business to go well, you have to pray for my business to go well – our interests are the same.”