Avoidance of Injuring Others

Avoidance of Injuring Others

Verse 311 If hurting others would bring princely riches, The pure in heart would still refuse.

Verse 312 It is the principle of the pure in heart never to injure others, Even when they themselves have been hatefully injured.

Verse 313 Having others, even enemies who harmed you unprovoked, Assures incessant sorrow.

Verse 314 If you return kindness for injuries received and forget both, Those who harmed you will be punished by their own shame.

Verse 315 What good is a man's knowledge unless it prompts him to Prevent the pain of others as if it were his own pain?

Verse 316 Any actions which a man knows would harm himself He should not inflict on others.

Verse 317 The supreme principle is this: Never knowingly Harm anyone at any time in any way

Verse 318 Why does he who knows what injury to his own life is like Inflict injury on other living human beings?

Verse 319 If a man inflicts sorrow on another in the morning, Sorrow will come to him unbidden in the afternoon.

Verse 320 All suffering recoils on the wrongdoer himself. Therefore, those who Desire not to suffer refrain from causing others pain.