Self Restraint

Mbh.3.258.12664	Self-restraint, fortitude, justice, control of the senses and of faculties, mercy, and virtue, all these are established in thee.
Mbh.5.43.2371	Self-restraint, renunciation, and knowledge of Self, in these are emancipation.
Mbh.5.43.2373	Self-restraint is constituted by eighteen virtues.
Mbh.5.45.2515	Self-restraint, renunciation, and knowledge, in these reside emancipation.
Mbh.5.63.3359	Self-restraint enhanceth energy, and is an excellent and holy attribute.
Mbh.5.63.3360	Freed from sin and his energy increased by Self-restraint, one acquireth even Brahma through it.
Mbh.5.63.3363	It hath been said that Self-restraint is an excellent vow for all the four modes of life.
Mbh.11.7.299	Self-restraint, renunciation, and heedfulness are the three steeds of Brahman.
Mbh.12.59.3298	Self-restraint, O king, has been declared to be the first duty of Brahmanas.
Mbh.12.159.9469	Self-restraint, in his case, surpasses in merit charity and sacrifice and study of the Vedas.
Mbh.12.159.9470	Self-restraint enhances his energy.
Mbh.12.159.9471	Self-restraint is highly sacred.
Mbh.12.159.9474	Self-restraint, according to all virtuous persons, is the highest of virtues in this world.
Mbh.12.198.11941	From Truth arise Righteousness and Self-restraint.
Mbh.12.209.12675	He is Truth, Knowledge, Sacrifice, Renunciation, Self-restraint, and Righteousness.
Mbh.12.219.13323	Self-restraint enhances one's energy.
Mbh.12.219.13324	Self-restraint is said to be sacred.
Mbh.12.290.18231	Self-restraint, forgiveness, patience, energy, contentment, truthfulness of speech, modesty, abstention from injury, freedom from the evil practices called vyasana, and cleverness, these are productive of happiness.
Mbh.12.338.21739	Thou hast thy home in Fame, in Penances, in Self-restraint, in Prosperity, in Knowledge, in grand Achievements, and in Everything belonging to the universe.
Mbh.12.340.22163	The blessed and holy one said, Ye foremost of celestials, ye should, in that age, repair to such places where the Vedas and sacrifices and Penances and Truth and Self-restraint, accompanied by duties fraught with compassion for all creatures, will still continue to flourish.
Mbh.13.18.2881	Vishnu said, O Great King, Aditya, Chandra, Wind, Fire, Heaven, Earth, the Vasus, the Viswedevas, Dhatri, Aryyaman, Sukra, Vrihaspati, the Rudras, the Saddhyas, Varuna, Brahma, Sakra, Maruts, the Upanishads that deal with knowledge of Brahman, Truth, the Vedas, the Sacrifices, Sacrificial Presents, Brahmanas reciting the Vedas, Soma, Sacrificer, the shares of the deities in sacrificial offerings or clarified butter poured in sacrifices, Raksha, Diksha, all kinds of restraints in the form of vows and fasts and rigid observances, Swaha, Vashat, the Brahmanas, the celestial cow, the foremost acts of righteousness, the wheel of Time, Strength, Fame, Self-restraint, the Steadiness of all persons endued with intelligence, all acts of goodness and the reverse, the seven Rishis, Understanding of the foremost order, all kinds of excellent touch, the success of all religious acts, the diverse tribes of the deities, those beings that drink heat, those that are drinkers of Soma, Clouds, Suyamas, Rishitas, all creatures having Mantras for their bodies, Abhasuras, those beings that live upon scents only, those that live upon vision only, those that restrain their speech, those that restrain their minds, those that are pure, those that are capable of assuming diverse forms through Yoga-puissance, those deities that live on touch as their food, those deities that subsist on vision and those that subsist upon the butter poured in sacrifices, those beings that are competent to create by fiats of their will the objects they require, they that are regarded as the foremost ones among the deities, and all the other deities, O descendant of Ajamila, the Suparnas, the Gandharvas, the Pisachas, the Danavas, Yakshas, the Charanas, the snakes, all that is gross and all that is exceedingly subtile, all that is soft and all that is not subtile, all sorrows and all joys, all sorrows that come after joy and all joy that comes after sorrow, the Sankhya philosophy, Yoga, and that which transcends objects which are regarded as foremost and very superior, all adorable things, all the deities, and all the protectors of the universe who entering into the physical forces sustain and uphold this ancient creation of that illustrious Deity, have sprung from that Creator of all creatures.
Mbh.13.75.6856	Self-restraint is more meritorious than gift.
Mbh.13.75.6900	Self-restraint is the attainment of the reward that attaches to Truth.

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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