Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure, when sought for the sake of heaven and such other rewards, are considered remote, because the rewards themselves are remote. They are near when sought, however, for the sake of Knowledge of Self. One should seek them for the purity of soul. One should not renounce them even in mind. If Virtue, Profit, and Pleasure are to be abandoned, one should abandon them when one has liberated one's self by ascetic penances.
संनिकृष्टांश्चरेदेतान् न चैतान् मनसा त्यजेत्। विमुक्तस्तपसा सर्वान् धर्मादीन् कामनैष्ठिकान्॥