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57 They who distress others by practising deception out of selfishness, nourish the poisonous creeper' in the form of injury. What do such merciless persons concern Dharma ?
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Those who, though protect with efforts, small insects such as ants, etc. yet bring calamity to human beings by misleading deceptions, do not understand the principle of mercy.
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59 On the one hand, there is ardent prompt. ness in the use of. deception and on the other hand, clamorous uproar in the worship of God is heard. It is a great wonder that such.deceitful people are not at all ashamed to
put on the sacred mark [free] on their · forehead.
60 . The milk in the form of the practice of religious rites, taken under the influence of delirium of deception, affects a change for worse. The seed sown in the mental field, when purified by the uprooting of deceit, tends to sprout forth.