As a dyke set across a river, if not washed away, makes the waters thereof to swell up, so the man who, without being attached to objects of pleasure, creates the dyke of virtue whose materials consist of the limitations set down in the scriptures, has never to wane away. On the other hand, his merits and penances, increase.
मर्यादायां धर्मसेतुर्निबद्धो नैव सीदति। पुष्टस्रोत इवासक्तः स्फीतो भवति संचयः॥