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indifferent to one's own happiness, calm, and without any attachment. (18)
Do not kill living beings, do not take what is not freely given, do not talk false, treacherous speech! This is the Law of him who is rich in control. (19)
Do not desire by words or thoughts what is a transgression (of the Law); guarding yourself in all ways, and subduing (the senses), practise control. (20)
A man who guards his self and subdues his senses, abhors all sins, past, present, and future ones. (21)
Benighted men of wrong faith, (though) they be renowned as heroes, exert themselves in a bad way, which will have, in all respects, evil consequences for them. (22)
Wise men of right faith, who are renowned heroes, exert themselves in a good way which will have no (evil) consequences whatever for them. (23)
Penance is of no good if performed by noble men who have turned monks (for the sake of fame); but that penance of which nobody else knows anything (is meritorious). Do not spread your own fame!! (24)
A pious man should eat little, drink little, talk little ; he should always exert himself, being calm, indifferent, a subduer (of his senses), and free from greed. (25)
Meditating and performing religious practices,
is found in the T'íkâ. It is, however, the identical verse 1, 3, 4, 20, see above, p. 271, which occurs again I, II, II.
? Compare Matthew vi. 1-6.
