Markandeyapurana 34.5.p1

34.5.p1

madālasovāca

Madālasā spoke:
“A householder must ever maintain Virtuous Custom thoroughly: for one who has lost Virtuous custom has no happiness here or in the next world. Sacrifice, alms-giving and austerities do not tend to the welfare of a man here, who habitually transgresses Virtuous custom. For a man who follows had custom does not find long life here. One must earnestly follow Virtuous custom; Virtuous custom destroys what is inauspicious.

Alarka spoke:
“Thou hast declared to me, mother, the threefold ceremonies to he observed by men, the perpetual, the occasional, and the periodic.[2] I wish to hear, O lady who gladdenest thy family, about Virtuous Custom by practising which a man gains happiness in the next world and in this.”