Of them who are given up to enjoyment, they who make gifts, they who celebrate sacrifices, they who are given to the study of the Vedas, and they who follow the life of Renunciation after having acquired and enjoyed riches and all its pleasures, when they depart from this world, who is it who gets the foremost place in heaven? I ask you this, O
स्यूमरश्मिरुवाच ये भुञ्जते ये ददते यजन्तेऽधीयते च ये। मात्राभिरुपलब्धाभिर्ये वा त्यागं समाश्रिताः॥ एतेषां प्रेत्यभावे तु कतमः स्वर्गजित्तमः। एतदाचक्ष्व मे ब्रह्मन् यथातत्त्वेन पृच्छतः॥