Patience, joy, prosperity, satisfaction, brightness of all faculties, happiness, purity, health, contentment, faith, liberality, mercy, forgiveness, firinness, benevolence, equanimity, truth, satisfaction of obligations, mildness, modesty, calmness, external purity, simplicity, observance of obligatory rites, dispassionateness, fearlessness of heart, disregard for good and evil as also for pristine deeds,-appropriation of objects only when acquired by gift, the absence of cupidity, regard for the interests of others, mercy for all crcatures, these have been said to be the characteristics of the quality of Goodness.
सत्त्वमानन्द उद्रेकः प्रीतिः प्राकाश्यमेव च। सुखं शुद्धित्वमारोग्यं संतोषः श्रद्दधानता॥ अकार्पण्यमसंरम्भः क्षमा धृतिरहिंसता। समता सत्यमानृण्यं मार्दवं ह्रीरचापलम्॥ शौचमार्जवमाचारमलौल्यं हृद्यसम्भ्रमः। इष्टानिष्टवियोगानां कृतानामविकत्थना॥ दानेन चात्मग्रहणमस्पृहत्वं परार्थता। सर्वभूतदया चैव सत्त्वस्यैते गुणाः स्मृताः॥