Can One Become Addicted to Spiritual Practice?

A Mahabharata Story Teaches Us the Answer

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Near the end of the Adi Parva in the Mahabharata, right before the burning of the Khandava forest, comes a fascinating story that points to why the forest, with all of its inhabitants, needed to be mercilessly destroyed and gives metaphysical context to the entirety of the Mahabharata.