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One has his eyes shut He conveys the lesson Look on things beautiful and if an occasion arise to see evil, shut your eyes, as I do The second has clapped his ears suggesting, 'I listen to what is good but close my ears to enl' The third monkey is represented as stopping his mouth and declaring, "Say good, but stop your mouth against uttering anything false, then keep mum' If one attains feliaty by controlling these three senses, how much more could be expected of one who attempted to master all one's senses
People have no control over the tongue They are used to circulate false reports They slander one
to-day, another the next day, and The mischief of idle talk
so on, thus spreading like an ink
blot the contagion of their malice Slander and gossip do incalculable harm and damage in society and victimize many an innocent man or woman who is helpless against their sweeping onslaught The evil works and spreads so subtly that we hardly notice the mischief done, in the beginning We should keep a strict guard on our speech Furst an idle talk, then an evening gossip, then slanderingthe match is struck, the fire spreads Or it is like a bucolic plague It is the worst of evils, the worst of social ills Its germs continue to live for years Sometimes, people take to this gossiping, just to idle away time and they know but little that they start the mischief It soon becomes a habit A confirmed
