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Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (242)
Bad conduct is the taint of woman, greediness the taint of a benefactor; tainted are all evil ways in this world and in the next.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (34)
Transgressions are injury, falsehood, theft, incontinence, envy; whether committed, or caused, or assented to, through greed, wrath, or infatuation;...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (17)
For all have done evil, and every mouth speaketh iniquity* and all their works are an uncleanness and an abom- ination, and all their ways are polluti...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIII (14)
And all these will come on an evil generation, which transgresseth on the earth : their works are uncleanness and fornication, and pollution and abomi...
The Masnavi
The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant (21-30)
Thou art asleep, and the smell of that forbidden fruit Ascends to the azure skies, Ascends along with thy foul breath, Till it overpowers heaven with ...
Bhagavad Gita
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.21)
Triple is this, the gate to hell, destructive of the self: LUST, WRATH, and GREED. Therefore, these three, one should abandon.
Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna Viṣhāda Yoga (1.41)
By the prevalence of impiety, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupt. Women corrupted, there will be intermingling of castes...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of This World (9)
Those who have indulged without limit in the pleasures of the world, at the time of death will be like a man who has gorged himself to repletion on...
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (3)
'Unblessed, surely, are the worlds to which a man goes by giving (as his promised present at a sacrifice) cows which have drunk water, eaten hay,...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVII (6)
O Covetousness, that mortals dost ingulf Beneath thee so, that no one hath the power Of drawing back his eyes from out thy waves! Full fairly...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (2)
Because the Condition and Inclination of the corrupted Nature is, to gaze only on high Things, like a proud, wild, wanton and colorish Woman, who...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (141-150)
Behold Genus become Species in due course, Behold secrets become manifest through his light! So long as woman-like you swallow blandishments, How, O...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of This World (6)
The deceitful character of the world comes out in the following ways. In the first place, it pretends that it will always remain with you, while, as...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (8)
The desires beget harm in this world and beyond: here, by bondage, slaughter, and loss of limb; beyond, in hell. That for the sake of which thou hast...
Bundahishn
Chapter III (17)
And avarice, want, pain, hunger, disease, lust, and lethargy were diffused by him abroad upon the ox and Gâyômard.
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (12)
Those that are in Authority and Power suck the very Marrow from the Bones of Men of low Degree and Rank, and feed upon the Sweat of their Brows. Brief...
The Masnavi
The Man who asked Moses to teach him the language of animals (11-19)
Whilst infidels feed on filth and garbage, And generate poison according to their food." Men inspired of God are the fountain of life; In the world...
Yasna (Gathas)
Yasna 47 — Spenta Mainyu Gatha (4)
(But this Thy bounteous spirit doth not alone bestow rewards and blessings on the good.) The wicked (foemen of the Faith) are harmed, and from (the...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXI (21)
I see, my son, That all the works of. the children of men are sin and wickedness, And all their deeds are uncleanness and an abomination and a...
Bhagavad Gita
Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yoga (16.10)
Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, holding unwholesome views through delusion, they work with unholy resolve;
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 10 (7)
But those whose conduct has been evil, will quickly attain an evil birth, the birth of a dog, or a hog, or a Kandâla....
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