Profit - AncientVoice

Mbh.8.34.1656	The blazing planets and the stars became its wooden fence; Religion, Profit, and Pleasure, united together, became its Trivenu.
Mbh.9.58.4192	Morality, however, is always afflicted by two things, the desire of Profit entertained by those that covet it, and the desire for Pleasure cherished by those that are wedded to it.
Mbh.9.58.4193	Whoever without afflicting Morality and Profit, or Morality and Pleasure, or Pleasure and Profit, followeth all three, Morality, Profit and Pleasure, always succeeds in obtaining great happiness.
Mbh.9.62.4511	I have attended to the three ends of human existence, Religion, Profit, and Pleasure!
Mbh.11.2.136	This is neither Profit, nor Religion, nor Happiness, on which thy heart is dwelling.
Mbh.12.15.594	The rod of chastisement protects Righteousness and Profit.
Mbh.12.54.2899	Let the righteous-souled son of Pandu, who would never commit a sin influenced by desire of Pleasure or Profit or from fear put questions to me.
Mbh.12.55.2923	O thou of Kuru's race, Morality, Profit, and Pleasure are dependent on kingly duties.
Mbh.12.58.3149	In it were treated the subject of Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure.
Mbh.12.58.3175	Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, and Emancipation, were also described in it.
Mbh.12.58.3179	Having composed that highly beneficial treatise, the divine Lord cheerfully said unto the deities having Indra for their head, those words: For the good of the world and for establishing the triple aggregate viz, Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, I have composed this science representing the very cheese of speech.
Mbh.12.58.3184	Virtue, Profit, Pleasure, and Salvation have all been treated in it'
Mbh.12.68.3870	The high aggregate of three consists of Virtue, Profit and Pleasure.
Mbh.12.70.3984	That foolish king who pursues Profit without driving away lust and wrath, fails to acquire virtue and ultimately sacrifices Profit as well.
Mbh.12.70.3985	Never employ those that are covetous and foolish in matters connected with Pleasure and Profit.
Mbh.12.70.3987	Stained with lust and wrath and unskilled in the transaction of business foolish persons, if vested with authority in matters of Profit, always oppress the people by diverse contrivances productive of mischief.
Mbh.12.90.5166	Amongst these three objects, viz, Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, Virtue is the foremost.
Mbh.12.91.5190	That king who disregards righteousness and desires to act with brute force, soon falls away from righteousness and loses both Righteousness and Profit.
Mbh.12.102.5711	Thus addressed, Vrihaspati, skilled in Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, possessed of a knowledge of kingly duties, and endued with great intelligence, answered Indra in the following words'
Mbh.12.126.7197	Then, O monarch, that foremost of virtuous men, viz, Tanu, began to discourse in the midst of the Rishis dwelling in that asylum upon topics connected with Righteousness and Profit.
Mbh.12.137.7696	Having reflected in this strain, the mouse, conversant with the science of Profit and well acquainted with occasions when war should be declared and peace made, gently addressed the cat, saying, I address thee in friendship, O cat!
Mbh.12.137.7967	Guided by the science of Profit, thou said that there is cause for a breach between thee and me.
Mbh.12.137.8025	This path of policy is consistent with the aggregate of three viz, Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, O king!
Mbh.12.139.8261	Repairing to Bharadwaja, he asked the Rishi about the truths of the science of Profit, saying, How can an unacquired object be acquired?
Mbh.12.139.8265	Thus questioned about the truths of the science of Profit, the regenerate Rishi said the following words fraught with excellent reason unto that ruler for explaining those truths.
Mbh.12.142.8702	The sage said, O mighty-armed monarch, listen to me as I narrate to thee this story that is fraught with truths connected with Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure.
Mbh.12.143.8761	One's spouse is one's associate in all one's acts of Virtue, Profit and Pleasure.
Mbh.12.166.9937	Thus addressed by the Kuru chief, Vidura, who was conversant with the science of Profit, with the course of the world, and with truth that concerns the real nature of things, and possessed of great brilliancy of intellect, spoke first these words, recollecting the contents of the scriptures'
Mbh.12.166.9941	Both Virtue and Profit have their roots in these.
Mbh.12.166.9946	It is upon Virtue that Profit or Wealth rests.
Mbh.12.166.9948	Profit is said to be middling.
Mbh.12.166.9952	Vaisampayana continued, After Vidura had finished what he had to say, Pritha's son Arjuna, well skilled in the science of Profit, and conversant also with the truths of both Virtue and Profit, urged on by the drift of Yudhishthira's question, said these words'
Mbh.12.166.9955	Agriculture, trade, keep of cattle, and diverse kinds of arts, constitute what is called Profit.
Mbh.12.166.9956	Profit, again, is the end of all such acts.
Mbh.12.166.9957	Without Profit or Wealth, both Virtue and the objects of Desire cannot be won.
Mbh.12.166.9995	As butter represents the essence of curds, even so is Desire the essence of Profit and Virtue.
Mbh.12.166.9999	Similarly, Desire is better than Virtue and Profit.
Mbh.12.166.10001	Desire is the parent of Virtue and Profit.
Mbh.12.166.10012	Virtue, Profit, and Desire should all be equally attended to.
Mbh.12.166.10021	He who is not employed in merit or in sin, he who does not attend to Profit, or Virtue, or Desire, who is above all faults, who regards gold and a brick-bat with equal eyes, becomes liberated from pleasure and pain and the necessity of accomplishing his purposes.
Mbh.12.167.10056	They that are well-born, they that are possessed of eloquence and politeness of speech, they that are endued with knowledge and science, they that are possessed of merit and other accomplishments, they that are free from covetousness, they that are never exhausted by labour, they that are good to their friends, they that are grateful, they that are possessed of varied information and knowledge, they that are destitute of avarice, they that are possessed of agreeable qualities, they that are firm in truth, they that have subdued their senses, they that are devoted to athletic and other exercises, they that are of good families, they that are perpetuators of their races they that are destitute of faults, they that are possessed of fame, should be accepted by kings for forming alliances of friendship with them, They, again, O monarch, who become pleased and contented if one behaves with them according to the best of one's powers, they who never get angry on occasions that do not justify anger, they who never become displeased without sufficient cause, those persons who are well conversant with the science of Profit and who, even when annoyed, succeed in keeping their minds tranquil, they who devote themselves to the service of friends at personal sacrifice, they who are never estranged from friends but who continue unchanged in their attachment like a red blanket made of wool which does not easily change its colour they who never disregard, from anger, those that are poor, they who never dishonour youthful women by yielding to lust and loss of judgment, they who never point out wrong paths to friends, they who are trustworthy, they who are devoted to the practice of righteousness, they who regard gold and brick-bats with an equal eye, they that adhere with firmness to friends and well-wishers, they who muster their own people and seek the accomplishment of the business of friends regardless of their own dignity and casting off all the marks of their own respectability, should be regarded as persons with whom alliances of friendship should be made.
Mbh.12.178.10709	While all other creatures are being borne away in the current of desire and passion, thou art perfectly indifferent to all acts appertaining to Religion, Profit, and Pleasure.
Mbh.12.189.11321	Both Virtue and Profit are sought for its sake.
Mbh.12.234.14525	The mighty river of Time, overspread with eddies constituted by the years, having the months for its waves and the seasons for its current, the fortnights for its floating straw and grass, and the rise and fall of the eyelids for its froth, the days and the nights for its water, and desire and lust for its terrible crocodiles, the Vedas and sacrifices for its rafts, and the righteousness of creatures for its islands, and Profit and Pleasure for its springs, truthfulness of speech and Emancipation for its shores, benevolence for the trees that float along it, and the yugas for the lakes along its course, the mighty river of Time, which has an origin as inconceivable as that of Brahma itself, is ceaselessly bearing away all beings created by the great Ordainer towards the abode of Yama
Mbh.12.270.16596	Profit, and Pleasure.
Mbh.12.284.17651	Salutations to thee that always discoursest of Religion, Pleasure, Profit, and Emancipation.
Mbh.12.284.17690	Thou art Righteousness which is marked by ten virtues; thou art Wealth or Profit of every kind; and thou art Pleasure.
Mbh.12.287.18022	That which is truly beneficial, and about which there is no doubt, viz, good offices to friends, and suppression of enemies, and the acquisition of the aggregate of three viz, Religion, Profit, and Pleasure, has been declared by the wise to be supreme excellence
Mbh.13.139.11405	I desire to hear from thee discourses that are interwoven with Religion and Profit, that lead to felicity hereafter, and that are fraught with wonder unto all creatures.
Mbh.13.143.11951	He should never indulge in sexual pleasure, but live cheerfully and in independence, well-conversant with the science of Wealth or Profit.
Mbh.13.148.12426	Verily, this Madhava is the expounder of the most difficult truths relating to Profit or Wealth, and he is also their achiever.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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