Verse 68
He left his own duty· Verses 62–68
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62Propping himself up by himself, as far as his strength went and as far as what he had learned went, he could not steady a mind shaking with love. 63Seized by the spirit that came in the guise of longing for her, he lost his wits, and thinking of her alone in his mind he gave up his own duty. 64He kept her pleased with as much of his father's wealth as there was, with coarse pleasures the mind delights in, in whatever way she might be satisfied. 65His own wife, a brahmin woman not yet grown, brought to him out of a great family, that wrongdoer put away before long, his understanding pierced by the loose woman's sidelong look.
66From here and from there, by fair means and foul, he brought in money, and the dull-witted man kept up the household of this household woman. 67Because he stepped over the teaching and lived as he pleased and was reproached by the good, he went on a long time, his life all wrong, unclean with his own filth. 68So we shall take this man, who has done evil and made no amends, before him who holds the rod, where he is made clean by punishment.