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14.PRECEPTS ON EDUCATION
(170) He who is modest and respectful gains knowledge and he who is arrogant and disrespectful fails to gain knowledge. He who is aware of these two facts acquires education.
(171) Pride, anger, negligence, disease and laziness these are five factors on account of which one fails to receive education.
(172 & 173) Not indulging in jokes,ever controlling oneself, not revealing the secrets of others, not lacking good manners, not exhibiting bad manners, not being very much greedy, not being angry and being committed to truthfulness-these are eight traits of character on account of which one is called a (true) lover of education.
(174) A person acquires knowledge and concentration of mind by studying scriptures. He becomes firm in religion and helps others to acquire that firmness. Thus through the studies of scriptures he becomes absorbed in the conemplation of what is expounded therein.
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