This short story demonstrates a point Shankara makes in the Brahma Sutra Bhashya 2.1.14. In order to explain the idea that 'a mithya vastu can bring about a real effect and the Veda that is not paaramarthika satya can generate real liberating knowledge that is unsublated, abaadhya, on the analogy of a man dying because of entertaining a strong doubt that he has consumed poison.' In the video the story is: A man encounters the Devataa in charge of decimating a huge population by inflicting a deadly disease (something like Corona). She tells him 'I am going to take the lives of 3000 people by this disease.' The man resigned to the idea that divine will can't be altered, goes away. A few days later he encounters that devataa and questions: You had said your target is 3000 lives but 30,000 have died in the pandemic.' She replies: I stuck to my target but all those extra deaths are due to their assuming that they have contacted the disease.' http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/workers-panic-as-lizards-tail-is-found-in-breakfast/article8623198.ece
Workers panicked after they heard that a colleague had found a lizard's tail in his breakfast plate in a private industry in the Naubad industrial area here on Thursday.
As the news spread, around 30 workers vomited thinking that they too might have consumed "poison".
"They were all admitted to hospital and discharged in a few hours. They are all healthy and fit, and will soon return to work," factory manager Rajesh Rao said.
A team of Health Department officers visited the unit and gave tips on handling such situations, District Health and Family Welfare Officer Baburao Hudgikar said.//
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