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356 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
- Follow not after things evil. Dwell not in negligence. Cherish not false ideas.
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Hasten towards the excellent, suppress all evil thoughts. Who so is backward in doing good, his mind delights in evil.
It is not well to do that deed which done brings regrets, the fruit whereof is received with tears and lamentations.
Even an evil-doer sees happiness so long as his evil deed does not ripen; but when his evil deed ripens, then does the evil-doer see evil.
Let no man think lightly of evil saying in his heart ‘It will not come right unto me.’ Even by the filling of water drops a water-pot is filled ; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gathers it little by little.
A man should hasten towards the good, and should keep his thought away from evil; if a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil.
If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again, let him not delight in sin ; the accumulation of evil is painful.
Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rests in bliss in this world.
From lust is born sorrow, from lust is born fear. To him who is wholly free from lust there is neither sorrow nor fear.
Hunger is the worst of diseases (component), existence the worst of distress. This knowing in accordance with truth and fact, Nibbana becomes the highest happiness.
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the doer as a diamond breaks even a precious stone.
He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the tree which it surrounds.
Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do ; difficult to do what is beneficial and good.