Acharya Prashant interprets a verse by Lalla, explaining that the 'donkey' represents the mind and the 'neighbor's saffron garden' represents the world. He states that the mind is naturally attracted to the world and tends to wander into it if left loose. When the mind engages with the world without discretion, it is the individual, not the mind, who suffers the consequences. The primary price of this wandering is the creation of unnecessary and burdensome relationships and entanglements with others that would not have existed otherwise.
