The sins of such a man continually grow, even as the interest charged by an usurer daily multiplies itself. If having committed a sin, one seeks to have it covered by virtue, that sin becomes destroyed and leads to virtue instead of to other sins.
यथा वा षिको वृद्धिं दिनभेदे प्रतीक्षते। धर्मेण पिहितं पापं धर्ममेवाभिवर्धयेत्॥