O child of Rukmini, listen to me as I tell you what prosperity one may acquire by adoring the Brahmanas. When one tries to acquire the threefold objects of life (viz., Virtue, Profit and Pleasure). or Emancipation, or fame and prosperity, or the treatment and cure of disease, or the worship of the deities and the departed manes, he should take care to please the twiceborn ones. They are each a king Soma. They are the dispensers of happiness and misery.
व्युष्टिं ब्राह्मणपूजायां रौक्मिणेय निबोध मे। एते हि सोमराजान ईश्वराः सुखदुःखयोः॥