The Blessed Lord said: Freedom from fear, purity of sattva, stability in the yoga of knowledge, charity, self-control, sacrifice, study of the Scriptures, austerity, rectitude…

Beginning of the enumeration of divine qualities (daiva-sampat). Abhaya — absence of fear, freedom from all anxiety. Sattva-saṃśuddhi — purity of the quality of luminosity. Jñāna-yoga-vyavasthiti — firmness in the yoga of knowledge.

The practices: dāna (generosity), dama (control of senses), yajña (sacrifice), svādhyāya (personal study, especially of the Vedas), tapas (austerity), ārjavam (rectitude, simplicity, non-twisting). These are the qualities that open the path toward the divine.