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386 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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be a slanderer; repeating here what he has heard elsewhere so as to set one set of people by the ears, and repeating elsewhere what he has heard here so as to set another set of people by the ears ; he is a dissolver of harmony and a fomenter of strife; discords prompts his utterances, discord being his pleasure, his joy, and his delight. Or ( iii ) he may be bitter of tongue; what he says is rough and harsh, hurtful and wounding to others, provocative of anger, and leading to distraction. Or ( iv ) he may be a tattler talking out of season, without heed to fact, always talking of the unprofitable, never of the Doctrine, never of the Rule, but ever of the trivial, of the ill-timed of the frivolous, of things leading nowhere, and unprofitable.
“As regards unrighteousness of thought, a man ( i ) may be covetous, coveting other people’s gear with the yearning that it were all his own. Or ( ii ) he may be malevolent and wicked of heart,—wishing that creatures around him might be killed, destroyed, annihilated, or cease to be. Or ( iii ) he may be wrong in outlook and erroneous in his conceptions—holding that there are no such things as alms or sacrifice or oblations, that there is no such things as the fruit and harvest of deeds good and bad, that there is no such thing as this world or any other, that there are no such things as either parents or relations elsewhere, that there are no such things in the world as recluse and Brahmins who, having trodden the right path and walked aright, have, of and by themselves, comprehended and realized this and other worlds and made it all known to others too.
“Contrariwise, there are three forms of righteousness and goodness for the body; four for speech and three for thoughts.
“As regards bodily righteousness, a man ( i ) puts from him all killing and abstains from killing anything; laying aside cudgel and sword, he lives a life of innocence and mercy, full of kindliness and compassion for everything that lives, ( ii ) Theft he puts from him and eschews taking from others except what