Virtue - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.105.5897	In our race, thou art Virtue, and thou art Truth, and thou art, too, our sole refuge.
Mbh.1.142.7674	Virtue, wealth and pleasure have both their evil and good effects closely knit together.
Mbh.1.214.10481	Virtue itself is sustaining a diminution!
Mbh.1.214.10496	Virtue is superior to the body and lasteth after the body hath perished'
Mbh.2.11.439	viz, Rig, Sama, Yajuh, and Atharva; all Sciences and branches of learning; Histories and all minor branches of learning; the several branches of the Vedas; the planets, the Sacrifices, the Soma, all the deities; Savitri Gayatri, the seven kinds of rhyme; Understanding, Patience, Memory, Wisdom, Intelligence, Fame, Forgiveness; the Hymns of the Sama Veda; the Science of hymns in general, and various kinds of Verses and Songs; various Commentaries with arguments, all in their personified forms, O king, and various Dramas and Poems and Stories and abridged Glosses, these also, and many others wait upon the Supreme Deity in that Sabha, Kshanas, Lavas, Muhurtas, Day, Night, Fortnights, Months, the six Seasons, O Bharata, Years, Yugas, the four kinds of Days and Nights viz, appearing to man, to the Pitris, to the gods, and to Brahma and that eternal, indestructible, undeteriorating, excellent Wheel of Time and also the Wheel of Virtue, these always wait there.
Mbh.2.66.2879	Virtue and morality are being persecuted by such conduct.
Mbh.3.33.1661	Virtue is sometimes also the weakness of men.
Mbh.3.88.4838	Brahmanas versed in the Vedas, and persons acquainted with the philosophy of the soul say that the illustrious Krishna is eternal Virtue.
Mbh.3.119.6114	When the son of Virtue met with defeat, and when his wife, his brothers, his followers, and himself were all driven forth, and Duryodhana began to flourish, why did not the earth subside with all its hills
Mbh.3.182.9018	And he said, O king, Virtue is preferable to the winning of kingdoms; it is, in fact, practice of austerities!
Mbh.3.205.10545	Virtue that is eternal is difficult of being understood.
Mbh.3.208.10756	Virtue is thus perverted; mark thou its subtle ways.
Mbh.3.268.13034	Virtue he never forsaketh, from lust or fear or anger!
Mbh.3.304.14950	Virtue I shall never sacrifice, seeing that in this world the keeping of their persons inviolate is deemed as the highest duty of women, and is held in high regard!
Mbh.3.311.15438	The Yaksha asked, Virtue, profit, and desire are opposed to one another.
Mbh.5.30.1377	Virtue, however, is eternal, and virtue is my power for the destruction of my enemies.
Mbh.5.35.1777	Virtue, repeatedly practised, enhanceth intelligence; and the man whose intelligence hath increased, repeatedly practiseth virtue.
Mbh.5.40.2187	Virtue is everlasting; pleasure and pain are transitory; life is, indeed, everlasting but its particular phases are transitory.
Mbh.5.42.2301	Virtue, therefore, is strong, and hence the success of the man of action'
Mbh.5.85.4064	Worthy of honour at the hands of all righteous persons he is the foremost of all men, and is, indeed, eternal Virtue.
Mbh.5.113.5155	Thus addressed, Garuda replied unto the Brahmana, saying, Indeed, O regenerate one, I entertained the thought of carrying away this lady crowned with ascetic success from this spot to where the Creator himself, the divine Mahadeva, the eternal Vishnu, and both Virtue and Sacrifice personified, live together, for as I thought this lady should live there.
Mbh.7.184.10077	Putting forth thy prowess, pay the debt thou owest to Truth, Prosperity, Virtue, and Fame!
Mbh.11.1.46	Virtue was regarded by none of them.
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.12.90.5166	Amongst these three objects, viz, Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, Virtue is the foremost.
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.12.122.6938	SECTION CXXIII Yudhishthira said, I wish, O sire, to hear the settled conclusions on the subject of Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure.
Mbh.12.122.6940	What are the respective roots of Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure?
Mbh.12.122.6943	Bhishma said, When men in this world endeavour with good hearts to achieve Wealth with the aid of Virtue, then those three, viz, Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure, may be seen to co-exist in a state of union in respect of time, cause, and action
Mbh.12.122.6944	Wealth has its root in Virtue, and Pleasure is said to be the fruit of Wealth.
Mbh.12.122.6950	It is said that Virtue is sought for the protection of the body, and Wealth is for the acquisition of Virtue.
Mbh.12.122.6953	Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure, when sought for the sake of heaven or such other rewards, are said to be remote because the rewards themselves are remote.
Mbh.12.122.6957	If Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure are to be abandoned, one should abandon them when one has freed one's self by ascetic penances
Mbh.12.122.6961	Virtue is not always the root of Wealth, for other things than Virtue lead to Wealth such as service, agriculture, c.
Mbh.12.122.6964	Other things again that Wealth such as fasts and vows have led to the acquisition of Virtue.
Mbh.12.122.6965	As regards this topic, therefore, a dullard whose understanding has been debased by ignorance, never succeeds in acquiring the highest aim of Virtue and Wealth, viz, Emancipation.
Mbh.12.122.6970	Kamandaka said, That man who, abandoning Virtue and Wealth pursues only Pleasure, reaps as the consequence of such conduct the destruction of his intelligence.
Mbh.12.122.6971	The destruction of intelligence is followed by heedlessness that is at once destructive of both Virtue and Wealth.
Mbh.12.137.8025	This path of policy is consistent with the aggregate of three viz, Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, O king!
Mbh.12.138.8233	The king is the root of one's triple aggregate ie, Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure.
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.12.166.9933	The king addressing his brothers with Vidura forming the fifth, said, The course of the world rests upon Virtue, Wealth, and Desire.
Mbh.12.166.9935	For subduing the triple aggregate viz, lust, wrath, and covetousness, upon which of the first three viz, Virtue, Wealth, and Desire should the mind be fixed?
Mbh.12.166.9938	Vidura said, Study of the various scriptures, asceticism, gift, faith, performance of sacrifices, forgiveness, sincerity of disposition, compassion, truth, self-restraint, these constitute possessions of Virtue.
Mbh.12.166.9939	Do thou adopt Virtue.
Mbh.12.166.9941	Both Virtue and Profit have their roots in these.
Mbh.12.166.9943	It is by Virtue that the Rishis have crossed the world with all its difficulties.
Mbh.12.166.9944	It is upon Virtue, that all the worlds depend for their existence.
Mbh.12.166.9945	It is by Virtue that the gods attained to their position of superiority.
Mbh.12.166.9946	It is upon Virtue that Profit or Wealth rests.
Mbh.12.166.9947	Virtue, O king, is foremost in point of merit.
Mbh.12.166.9950	For this reason, one should live with restrained soul, giving his attention to Virtue most.
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.12.166.9957	Without Profit or Wealth, both Virtue and the objects of Desire cannot be won.
Mbh.12.166.9960	Virtue and Desire are the limbs of Wealth as the Sruti declares.
Mbh.12.166.9961	With the acquisition of Wealth, both Virtue and the objects of Desire may be won.
Mbh.12.166.9973	That Wealth which is connected with Virtue, as also that Virtue which is connected with Wealth, is certainly like nectar
Mbh.12.166.9975	A person without wealth cannot gratify any desire; similarly, there can be no Wealth in one that is destitute of Virtue.
Mbh.12.166.9976	He, therefore, who is outside the pale of both Virtue and Wealth, is an object of fear unto the world.
Mbh.12.166.9977	For this reason, one should seek the acquisition of Wealth with a devoted mind, without disregarding the requirements of Virtue.
Mbh.12.166.9979	One should first practise Virtue; next acquire Wealth without sacrificing Virtue; and then seek the gratification of Desire, for this should be the last act of one who has been successful in acquiring Wealth'
Mbh.12.166.9983	One without Desire never wishes for Virtue.
Mbh.12.166.9994	Both Virtue and Wealth are based upon Desire.
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.12.189.11321	Both Virtue and Profit are sought for its sake.
Mbh.12.189.11322	Virtue is its root.
Mbh.12.190.11388	In it Virtue, Wealth, and Pleasure, may all be obtained.
Mbh.12.272.16730	Listen now to Emancipation, and Renunciation, and Sin, and Virtue to their very roots.
Mbh.12.294.18391	Virtue and sin exist, O king, only among men.
Mbh.12.318.19961	He cast off all ordinary duties and their derelictions, Virtue and Vice, Truth and Falsehood, Birth and Death, and all other things appertaining to the principles produced by Prakriti.
Mbh.13.7.473	Virtue is honoured by him who honours these three.
Mbh.14.13.386	For this reason thou too, O prince, divert thy desires Kama to Virtue, so that, by this means, thou mayst attain what is well for thee.

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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