Itivuttaka 76
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('â', May praise come to me,â a wise person should guard his virtue. [Thinking,] ),
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('â', May wealth come to me,â a wise person should guard his virtue. [Thinking,] ),
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('â', At the break-up of the body, after death, may I reappear in a good destination, a heavenly world,â a wise person should guard his virtue. Aspiring to these three forms of bliss, a wise person should guard his virtue." Intelligent, you should guard your virtue, aspiring to three forms of bliss: praise; the obtaining of wealth; and, after death, rejoicing in heaven. Even if you do no evil but seek out one who does, youâre suspected of evil. Your bad reputation grows. The sort of person you make a friend, the sort you seek out, thatâs the sort you yourself become– for your living together is of that sort. The one associated with, the one who associates, the one whoâs touched, the one who touches another –like an arrow smeared with poison– contaminates the quiver. So, fearing contamination, the enlightened should not be comrades with evil people. A man who wraps rotting fish in a blade of kusa grass makes the grass smelly: so it is if you seek out fools. But a man who wraps powdered incense in the leaf of a tree makes the leaf fragrant: so it is if you seek out the enlightened. So, knowing your own outcome as like the leaf-wrapperâs, you shouldnât seek out those who arenât good. The wise would associate with those who are. Those who arenât good lead you to hell. The good help you reach a good destination. See also: AN 8:54; AN 9:1; Ud 4:1 - --> - - - -