That which is truly and, without any doubt, wholesome, viz., good offices to friends, and suppression of enemies, and the acquisition of be supreme the three-fold objects of life, has been described by the wise to excellence. Abstention, from sinful deeds, righteous disposition, good conduct towards the good and pious,-these, forsooth, constitute excellence.
यत् तु निश्रेयसं सम्यक् तच्चैवासंशयात्मकम्॥ अनुग्रहं च मित्राणाममित्राणां च निग्रहम्। संग्रहं च त्रिवर्गस्य श्रेय आहुर्मनीषिणः॥ निवृत्तिः कर्मणः पापात् सततं पुण्यशीलता। सद्भिश्च समुदाचारः श्रेय एतदसंशयम्॥