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12. When he lives in any country, if there is any particular, wellknown, established custom which does not involve the breaking of any high principle, such custom should be followed.
13. He should not get into any undesirable habits or practices, such as meat eating or wine drinking.
14. He should not libel or slander anybody because this is done always with a view to harming the reputation of the person without any proper purpose. Showing up fraudulent people is not libel or slander, it is doing good. Do not lible or slander the King.
15 & 16. Keep the company of only pure hearted persons and persons of good conduct; and do not keep the company of bad persons. The difference here from rule 8 is that this refers to equals ; rule 8 refers to persons spiritually more advanced.
17. Respect the parents. The idea is that they have done so much for us that we should return something, we should return gratitude. If we cannot do this by giving them money we can do so by showing them the right path. Had they chosen not to care for us we should have suffered.
18. None of the person's actions should be such as to cause unnecessary ill feeling to anybody ; he should not speak words which would unnecessarily cause ill feeling in the mind of another.
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