Implications

You may ask: What does this little story between a snail and its parasite tell us?

Well, there are several folds of implications:

1. When you are having a war with another person for a trivial matter, it is likely both sides are infected by some malicious parasites.
2. While having the war (and as a result of being infected), you become blind and will be unaware of more sinister dangers around.
3. The very fact that you could be infected and are involved in a war means that you are part of a mollusk.
4. The whole process of parasitic propagation is a flesh-and-blood demonstration of Saṃsāra (輪迴) of Buddhism (or, to be exact, Upanishads of Hinduism).

As to the last point, there is an important difference between reincarnation and Saṃsāra. The former means the persistence of life or soul, while, in the case of the latter, it is the causes and effects of doings and wrongdoings being persistent in the realm.

We call that Karma (業).