As a diamond shatters in the company of a hammer, so a saint is ruined by bad company. Good creatures are corrupted by the company of the unruly, undone in a single moment of association. Gold becomes base in the company of alloy, losing its worth of lakhs and crores. As poison makes sweet dishes taste bitter, so does evil company work its ways. Says Tuka, with devotion I declare: good company is blessed, while evil company leads to the cycle of eighty-four hundred thousand births.