In English
If we offer a tumbler of water and ask any one to pay, nobody will pay half a for the water. But if with half a tumbler of water we mix another half a tumbler of milk, then we will be able to get a good price. Here, the value of water has gone up and the value of milk has gone down. In the same manner, by keeping good company, it will be possible for us to get rid of our bad qualities and acquire good qualities. But if we go and join bad people, we will also have to accept their bad qualities. If we wear white clean dress and if we sit with a person like a goldsmith who works with smoke, our dress will also become dark. Here we see a chance of our strength becoming weak if we go and sit in the wrong place. This is the reason why it has been said that out of good company will arise detachment. Out of detachment will arise our ability to understand truth.