By what do creatures live? What is the limit of their life? What is truth? What is penance, O learned Brahmana? What are called qualities by the good?
केन जीवन्ति भूतानि तेषामायुश्च किं परम्। किं सत्य किं तपो विप्र के गुणाः सद्भिरीरिताः॥