The Illustrious Deity said Those who observe the vows of fasts and control their senses, who abstain from injury of any kind to any creature, and who practise truthfulness of speech, acquire success and ascending to the celestial region sport in happiness with the Gandharvas as as their companions, freed from every kind of evil.
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच उपवासव्रतैर्दान्ता ह्यहिंसाः सत्यवादिनः। संसिद्धाः प्रेत्य गन्धर्वैः सह मोदन्त्यनामयाः॥