One desirous of what is wholesome, should, from the beginning, avoid that act for which one becomes stretched, as it were, on a bed of thorns and for which one becomes invested with the desires born of the pristine deeds.
येन खट्वां समारूढः कर्मणानुशयी भवेत्। आदितस्तन्न कर्तव्यमिच्छता भवमात्मनः॥