243. But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the
greatest taint. O mendicants! throw off that taint, and become
taintless!

244. Life is easy to live for a man who is without shame, a crow hero,
a mischief-maker, an insulting, bold, and wretched fellow.

245. But life is hard to live for a modest man, who always looks for
what is pure, who is disinterested, quiet, spotless, and intelligent.

246. He who destroys life, who speaks untruth, who in this world takes
what is not given him, who goes to another man's wife;

247. And the man who gives himself to drinking intoxicating liquors,
he, even in this world, digs up his own root.

248. O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take
care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long
time!

249. The world gives according to their faith or according to their
pleasure: if a man frets about the food and the drink given to others,
he will find no rest either by day or by night.

250. He in whom that feeling is destroyed, and taken out with the very
root, finds rest by day and by night.

251. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred,
there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.