In English
You should run away from bad company. A bad company can spoil even a good man. A renunciant may be turned into a covetous man. This is the effect of bad company. The ancient sages considered association with the evil-minded as companionship with a poisonous snake. It was to escape from the danger of such association that they resorted to the solitude of forests. A snake may bite a person once in a way but a bad man infects others with poison all the time. A bad man is one who is filled with bad thoughts, speaks bad words and does bad deeds. The offers four examples of. bad men called . The first one is ('s maternal uncle). was all the time filled with (bad thoughts). He is a total stranger to good ideas. He was always plotting something bad for someone or other. was having as his adviser was engaged in (bad deeds). They were comrades in evil. Then came (brother of ). In association with and , became notorious for his (bad behaviour). When these three evil-minded men came together, "even stars, started " falling during daytime," as the saying goes. The whole cosmos rebels against such evil-minded men. , out of a false sense of (bad attachment), joined this trio. Gratitude is doubtless a good quality. But because came to his rescue on a critical occasion, developed a wrongful attachment to . was a good-natured person. He was noble-minded. But because he was associated with evil-minded men he also became a bad person. Despite his valour, physical prowess and intellectual abilities, met with disaster., because he had made himself remote from God. What was the defect in ? (misguided attachment).