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Other Precepts
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Sixty Eight Some Significant Illustrations
1. As a cartman who intentionally leaves the smooth high
way and gets on a rugged road, repents when the axle breaks, so the ignorant one, who transgresses the path of righteousness and embraces unrighteousness, repents at the time of his death over the broken axle of his life.
- Utta. Sū. 5.14,15
2. Three merchants went abroad with capital to earn money;
one of them earned good profit while the second retained his capital but the third one lost his entire capital. This is an example taken from common life. This applies to Dharma as well.
- Utta. Sū. 7.14,15
3. Just as a diseased dog is driven away from everywhere, so
also the ill-natured, insubordinate and talkative disciple is expelled disgracefully from all places.
— Utta. Sū. 1.4
4. However much milk a snake may drink, it is unable to
give up its poisonous nature; so also a characterless person who may study innumerable scriptures, remains unable to shed his wicked nature.
- Sa. Sā. 317
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