Weaver’s Wisdom

Avoidance of Injuring Others

KURAL 311

Even if injuring others would bring princely riches, the pure in heart would still avoid it.§

KURAL 312

It is the principle of the pure in heart never to injure others, even when they themselves have been hatefully injured.§

KURAL 313

Harming others, even enemies who harmed you unprovoked, surely brings incessant sorrow.§

KURAL 314

If you return kindness for injuries received and forget both, Those who harmed you will be punished by their own shame.§

KURAL 315

What good is a man’s knowledge unless it prompts him to prevent the pain of others as if it were his own pain?§

KURAL 316

Actions that are known to harm oneself should never be inflicted upon others. §

KURAL 317

The highest principle is this: never knowingly harm anyone at any time in any way.§

KURAL 318

Why does he who knows what injury to his own life is like inflict injury upon other living human beings?§

KURAL 319

If a man visits sorrow on another in the morning, sorrow will visit him unbidden in the afternoon.§

KURAL 320

All suffering recoils on the wrongdoer himself. Thus, those desiring not to suffer refrain from causing others pain.§