Dhritarashtra: Having destroyed sin through virtue, his soul is illumined by knowledge. The man of knowledge attains the Supreme Soul through knowledge. Otherwise, he who craves the four objects of human pursuit, taking with him all that he does here, enjoys their fruits hereafter, and, since those fruits are not eternal, returns to the field of action once the enjoyment is spent. Indeed, the fruits of ascetic feats performed in this world must be enjoyed in the world beyond — for those who have not mastered their own souls. As for the brahmanas engaged in ascetic practice, who have mastered their souls, even these regions are able to yield fruit.' Dhritarashtra said: 'O Sanatsujata, how can ascetic austerities, which are all of the same kind, sometimes succeed and sometimes fail? Tell us this, that we may know it!' Sanatsujata said: 'That asceticism which is unstained by desire and other faults is held able to secure liberation, and is therefore successful, while asceticism stained by vanity and the absence of true devotion is held unsuccessful. All your questions, O kshatriya, touch the very root of asceticism. It is through asceticism that the learned come to know Brahman and attain immortality!' Dhritarashtra said: 'I have heard what you have said about asceticism unstained by faults, through which I have come to know the eternal mystery. Now tell me, O Sanatsujata, about asceticism stained by faults!' Sanatsujata said: 'O king, twelve, beginning with anger, together with thirteen kinds of evil, are the flaws of stained asceticism. Anger, lust, greed, ignorance of good and evil, discontent, cruelty, malice, vanity, grief, love of pleasure, envy, and evil speech about others — all these are, generally, the faults of man.'