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household duties. (6) Residence in safe places, where he could perform his duties with perfect safety. (7) Association of good persons. (8) Living according to one's means. (9) Respect for customs, which do not transgress high principles. (10) Avoidance of undesirable habits as slandering and libelling.(11) Respect towards elders, superiors, spiritual teachers and deities. (12) Practice of temperate habits. (13) Avoidance of causing unnecessary ill-feeling. (14) Proper discharge of one's duties towards the inferiors and the distressed. (15) Performance of actions tending to the attainment of duty (Dharma), wealth. (Artha), desires (Karma) and liberation (Mokɛha). (16) Arranging the course of life to one's strength, as to advance moral, social, intellectual and spiritual development.
Verse 32.
श्लोको वरं परमतत्वपथ प्रकाशी न ग्रन्थकोटिपठनं जनरञ्जनाय ।
