If a man should destroy gardens and orchards,
and plant babhul trees, imagining them
better, what advantages to himself has he really
foreseen? If a man should burn up all his grain
and plant black cummin, he would be closing
the roads that led his fathers to prosperity, and
taking people out along waste tracks. He would
be as one that calls poison nectar, as one that
murders Brahmanas. Tuka says, If a man will
not listen to teaching, it is no sin to destroy him.
and plant babhul trees, imagining them
better, what advantages to himself has he really
foreseen? If a man should burn up all his grain
and plant black cummin, he would be closing
the roads that led his fathers to prosperity, and
taking people out along waste tracks. He would
be as one that calls poison nectar, as one that
murders Brahmanas. Tuka says, If a man will
not listen to teaching, it is no sin to destroy him.