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Better to beg than live on bloodstained wealth

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कुल-क्षये प्रणश्यन्ति कुल-धर्माः सनातनाः ।धर्मे नष्टे कुलं कृत्स्नम् अधर्मोऽभिभवत्युत ॥

Although these, with a consciousness clouded with greed, see no guilt in the destruction of the family, no crime in hostility to friends, why should not we have the wisdom to draw back from such a sin, O Janardana, we who see the evil in the destruction of the family? In the annihilation of the family the eternal traditions of the family are destroyed; in the collapse of traditions, lawlessness overcomes the whole family.

Gītā 1·39

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in