Selected Verses from the Dhammapada
Translated by P. Lal...Chapter: The Disciple of Dhamma...page 128




A liar with a shaven head
does not make a monk.
How can a monk be
restless and deceitful?

But the man in whom evil,
small or big, has died out,
he is the true monk,
subduer of his passions.


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