People may have performed a variety of Vedic rites and sacrifices; they might even be expounding the contents of a variety of sacred scriptures that they have mastered; they may be endowed with prosperity, owning vast wealth; they might teach the Vedas and their complementary disciplines with due exposition of meanings. But without moral character, they have no place where Brahman (Divinity) is taught or learned. This is the important lesson conveyed by divine aphorisms.
- Sutra Vahini, Chap 1, "Primacy of Moral Character".
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