Some leaving off every thing, live in silent meditation. Some speak of sovereignty and the caring after subjects, after killing, cutting, and piercing (foes). Some prefer spending their days in retirement. Observing all this, the learned hold that religion which consists is not injuring any creature is the one approved of by the righteous. The practice of abstention from injury, truthfulness of speech, justice, compassion, self-control, procreation (of offspring) upon one's own wives, amiability, modesty, patience, is the best of all religious as said by the self-born Manu himself. Therefore, O son of Kunti, do you practise this religion!