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Virtue
Virtue refers to moral excellence across spiritual traditions. Traditions converge on the importance of cultivating virtues for personal growth. They diverge in specific virtues and practices.
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Brahman is beyond knowledge and ignorance, virtue and vice, merit and demerit, cleanliness and uncleanliness.
The agent who is free of attachment, who does not speak of himself, endowed with resolve and zeal, unmoved by success or failure — that agent is called sattvic.
मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः | सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ||१८-२६||
Heroism, vigor, fortitude, skill, not fleeing in battle, generosity, and a lordly bearing — these make up the work of a kshatriya, born of his own nature.
शौर्यं तेजो धृतिर्दाक्ष्यं युद्धे चाप्यपलायनम् | दानमीश्वरभावश्च क्षात्रं कर्म स्वभावजम् ||१८-४३||
Calmness, self-control, austerity, purity, patience, and uprightness, knowledge, wisdom, and faith in God — these make up the work of a brahmin, born of his own nature.
शमो दमस्तपः शौचं क्षान्तिरार्जवमेव च | ज्ञानं विज्ञानमास्तिक्यं ब्रह्मकर्म स्वभावजम् ||१८-४२||
No object or power is bad by itself; bad is its misuse. All human energies and virtues stand misused when we utilise these gifts of God for making others unhappy.
Austerity, charity, uprightness, non-violence, and truthful speech—these are his sacrificial gifts.
अथ यत्तपो दानमार्जवमहिꣳसा सत्यवचनमिति ता अस्य दक्षिणाः
The word "Sat" is used in the sense of reality and of goodness; and so too, Partha, the word "Sat" is applied to an auspicious act.
सद्भावे साधुभावे च सदित्येतत्प्रयुज्यते | प्रशस्ते कर्मणि तथा सच्छब्दः पार्थ युज्यते ||१७-२६||
One who is even-minded toward well-wishers, friends, enemies, the indifferent, the neutral, the hateful, and relatives, and toward the good and the wicked alike, stands out as superior.
सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु | साधुष्वपि च पापेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते ||६-९||
There is nothing more worthy of respect by kings than punishment, which shows the path of righteousness.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the weak and an ornament of the strong. Forgiveness conquers all in this world; what is it that forgiveness cannot accomplish?
Non-injuring in thought, word, and deed is the highest of all virtues.
Truth must be observed in thoughts, words, and actions. If you are established in truth, all other virtues will naturally follow.
Whenever righteousness declines, I incarnate myself. I am reborn from time to time to protect the virtuous, destroy evil-doers, and establish righteousness.
Meditation on the whole of the Saman is good. Whatever is good, people call 'saman'; whatever is not good, they call 'a-saman.'
समस्तस्य खलु साम्न उपासनꣳ साधु यत्खलु साधु तत्सामेत्याचक्षते यदसाधु तदसामेति
And people say, 'Saman for us indeed!' when something is good, meaning 'Good indeed!'; and they say, 'A-saman for us!' when something is not good, meaning 'Not good indeed!'
अथोताप्याहुः साम नो बतेति यत्साधु भवति साधु बतेत्येव तदाहुरसाम नो बतेति यदसाधु भवत्यसाधु बतेत्येव तदाहुः
And so people say, 'He approached him with saman,' meaning 'He approached him with goodness'; and 'He approached him with a-saman,' meaning 'He approached him with what is not good.'
तदुताप्याहुः साम्नैनमुपागादिति साधुनैनमुपागादित्येव तदाहुरसाम्नैनमुपागादित्यसाधुनैनमुपगादित्येव तदाहुः
Always be truthful, as it encompasses all virtues. Be true to yourself and others in all your actions.
When they had arrived, he had due honors arranged for each. Rising in the morning, he said: "In my realm there is no thief, no miser, no drunkard, no man without a sacred fire, no ignorant man, no adulterer—much less an adulteress. I am about to perform a sacrifice, sirs; and as much wealth as I give to each priest, so much will I give to each of you. Stay, sirs."
तेभ्यो ह प्राप्तेभ्यः पृथगर्हाणि कारयांचकार स ह प्रातः संजिहान उवाच न मे स्तेनो जनपदे न कर्दर्यो न मद्यपो नानाहिताग्निर्नाविद्वान्न स्वैरी स्वैरिणी कुतो यक्ष्यमाणो वै भगवन्तोऽहमस्मि यावदेकैकस्मा ऋत्विजे धनं दास्यामि तावद्भगवद्भ्यो दास्यामि वसन्तु भगवन्त इति
One who knows this and meditates on the Saman as goodness — to him good qualities will surely come and attend upon him.
स य एतदेवं विद्वानसाधु सामेत्युपास्तेऽभ्याशो ह यदेनꣳ साधवो धर्मा आ च गच्छेयुरुप च नमेयुः