Suktimuktavali 37

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Now the section on good conduct:
He who has completely cast away his own good conduct, which is a wish-fulfilling jewel of the three worlds, / has beaten the drum of ill repute throughout the world, blackened his family with soot, / given the final handful of water to good behavior, set a forest fire to the garden of virtuous qualities, / made a rendezvous for all calamities, and fixed a firm bolt upon the gate to the city of liberation. (37)