Vyasa said ochief of Brahmanas, O blessed one, be not troubled. He who acts piously, comes by a respectable birth. He on the other hand, who acts impiously comes by a low and vile birth. O you who are conversant with virtue, one attains to misery according to the measure of his sin.
व्यास उवाच भो भो ब्रह्मर्षभ श्रीमन् मा व्यथिष्ठाः कथंचन। शुभकृच्छुभयोनीषु पापकृत् पापयोनिषु॥ उपपद्यति धर्मज्ञ यथापापफलोपगम्।