Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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2.197. Going (round) to face (the teacher), if his face is averted, approaching him if he stands at a distance, but
bending towards him if he lies on a bed, and if he stands in a lower place.
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2.200. Wherever (people) justly censure or falsely defame his teacher, there he must cover his ears or depart
thence to another place.
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2.201. By censuring (his teacher), though justly, he will become (in his next birth) an ass, by falsely defaming
him, a dog; he who lives on his teacher’s substance, will become a worm, and he who is envious (of his merit), a
(larger) insect.
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2.202. He must not serve the (teacher by the intervention of another) while he himself stands aloof, nor when he
(himself) is angry, nor when a woman is near; if he is seated in a carriage or on a (raised) seat, he must descend
and afterwards salute his (teacher).
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2.203. Let him not sit with his teacher, to the leeward or to the windward (of him); nor let him say anything
which his teacher cannot hear.
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2.204. He may sit with his teacher in a carriage drawn by oxen, horses, or camels, on a terrace, on a bed of grass
or leaves, on a mat, on a rock, on a wooden bench, or in a boat.
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2.205. If his teacher’s teacher is near, let him behave (towards him) as towards his own teacher; but let him,
unless he has received permission from his teacher, not salute venerable persons of his own (family).
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2.206. This is likewise (ordained as) his constant behaviour towards (other) instructors in science, towards his
relatives (to whom honour is due), towards all who may restrain him from sin, or may give him salutary advice.