Wise men consider such an act to be the foremost of all things. Indeed, this act of crossing the river of life is considered by the foremost of pious persons, by ascetics conversant with the truth, to be the greatest of all acts that one can perform.
ततो द्रक्ष्यसि सर्वेषां भूतानां प्रभवाप्ययौ। एनं वै सर्वभूतेभ्यो विशिष्टं मेनिरे बुधाः। धर्मं धर्मभृतां श्रेष्ठा मुनयस्तत्त्वदर्शिनः॥