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Dharma-Mārga ( Ācāra-Samhitā)
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Thirty Seven Righteousness
1. Righteousness ( Dharma) is supremely auspicious. Its con
stituents are non-violence, self-restraint and austerity. Even the celestials revere him who is rooted in Dharma.
— Dasa. Sū. 1. 1
2. The essential nature of any substance is Dharma. The ten
virtues like forgiveness and others are the ten characteristics of Dharma. The triple jewels, i.e., right faith, right knowledge and right conduct constitute the Dharma and giving protection to living creatures is also Dharma.
— Dvā. A. 478 3. Supreme forgiveness, supreme humility, supreme straight
forwardness, supreme truthfulness, supreme purity, supreme self-restraint, supreme austerity, supreme renunciation, supreme detachment, and supreme continence are the ten characteristics of Dharma.
- Ku. A. 70
4. He alone can be said to have truly renounced (the world)
who has turned his back on all available, desirable, beloved and dear objects which are entirely his own.
- Daśa. Sū. 2.3
5. Greater is he who restrains himself, though giving no alms,
than he who gives thousands and thousands of cows every month but restrains not himself.
- Utta. Sū. 9.40 For Private & Personal Use Only
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