A virtuous man should, while observing his duties, discard his very friends and elders. In fact, so long as they do not perform expiation, the virtuous should not even talk with those sinners. A man who has committed sins dissipates them by acting virtuously afterwards and by penances. By calling a thief a thief, one conimits the sin of theft.
अमात्यान् वा गुरून् वापि जह्याद् धर्मेण धार्मिकः। प्रायश्चित्तमकुर्वाणै तैरर्हति संविदम्॥ अधर्मकारी धर्मेण तपसा हन्ति किल्विषम्। ब्रुवन् स्तेन इति स्तेनं तावत् प्राप्नोति किल्बिषम्॥