He who, helped by his wisdom, succeeds beforehand seeing the faults referred to above, who is skilled in determining what is happiness and what is sorrow and how each is engendered, and who waits respectfully upon the good, makes progress in acquiring virtue, both on account of his habit and such companionship of the good. The mind of such a person finds pleasure in virtue, and he live on, making virtue his stay.
य एतान् प्रज्ञया दोषान् पूवमेवानुपश्यति॥ कुशलः सुखदुःखानां साधूंश्चाप्यथ सेवते। तस्य साधुसमाचारादभ्यासाच्चैव वर्धते॥