“Now look you, Kalamas.
Be ye not misled by report or tradition or hearsay.
Be not misled by proficiency in the collections [pitakas],
nor by mere logic or inference,
nor after considering reasons,
nor after reflection on and approval of some theory,
nor because it fits becoming,
nor out of respect for a recluse (who holds it).
But if at any time ye know of yourselves:
These things are profitable,
they are blameless,
they are praised by the intelligent:
these things, when performed and undertaken, conduce to profit and happiness,
— then, Kalamas, do ye, having under taken them, abide therein.”
Source: Buddha, as translated in “Book of the Gradual Sayings Vol I (Anguttara Nikaya) (or More-Numbered Suttas)“, Pali Text Society, Oxford University Press, 1932. Page 171.
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