Parashara said Virtue acquired by acts is of supreme benefit both in this world and the next. The sages of old have said that there is nothing higher than virtue.
पराशर उवाच धर्म एव कृतः श्रेयानिह लोके परत्र च। तस्माद्धि परमं नास्ति यथा प्राहुर्मनीषिणः॥