What you ask me, O Kshatriya, have all their bases on asceticism do learned men know the Supreme Soul and win immortality.
तपोमूलमिदं सर्वं यन्मां पृच्छसि क्षत्रिय। तपसा वेदविद्वांसः परं त्वतमाप्नुयुः॥