Depending upon the true course of virtue, they became gifted with irresistible energy. They never followed their own understandings while acquiring merit but followed the injunctions of the scriptures along for that end. Accordingly they were never guilty of guile in performing acts of righteousness.
सत्यं हि धर्ममास्थाय दुराधर्षतमा मताः। न मात्रामनुरुध्यन्ते न धर्मच्छलमन्ततः॥