"Thus the trait of intoxication (the opposite of self-restraint) has faults, all of which have been declared (in the scriptures). These faults should be avoided. I have spoken to you of renunciation and self-knowledge. And just as self-knowledge has eight virtues, so its absence has eight faults. These faults should be avoided. O Bharata, one who is freed from these — the five senses, the mind, the past, and the future — becomes happy. O king, let your soul be devoted to truth; indeed, all the worlds rest upon truth; it is said that self-control, renunciation, and self-knowledge have truth as their chief attribute. Avoiding these faults, one should practice austerity here, so that truth alone remains the vow of the righteous. Endowed with these virtues, one becomes a source of great prosperity. I have now briefly told you of this sin-destroying and sacred matter, about which you asked me, and which is able to free a man from birth, death, and old age." Dhritarashtra said: "In the Vedas, counting the Akhyana (the Puranas) as a fifth, the Supreme Soul is the universe, consisting of moving and unmoving things. Others hold that there are four; and yet others three; others again consider two; and others only one; and still others regard Brahman alone as the sole existing object (there being nothing else possessed of separate existence). Among these, I should know who truly possesses knowledge of Brahman." Sanatsujata said: "There is but one Brahman, who is the essence of Truth. It is precisely because of ignorance of this one deity that they came to be conceived as many. But who there, O king, has attained the essence of Truth, or of Brahman? A man deems himself wise without knowing this one Object of knowledge, and, from a desire for happiness, occupies himself with study and with the practices of charity and sacrifice."