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be patient one does not speak falsehood which creates distrust among people, which produces wicked desires in the mind and which gives rise to manifold sins one after another.
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Wise persons believe all other vows to be embankments of the lake of non-injury. So swerving from the vow of truthfulness, is pulling down the bank and then the water ( of non--injury ) flor's unchecked.
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A vile person who robs another of his wealth, burns the garden of his own religious merits by doing so. The stolen wealth does not allow a man to enjoy it with ease. That wretched person is thus deprived of happiness here as well as in the next world.
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Seeing that poverty, bad luck, in amy and mutilation of body, etc. are the fruits of theft, a person should give up this habit; even a blade of grass should not be touched without permission.
