Do you, O son, go the way that is gone by all creatures, even by ascetics engaged in the study of the Veda, by bestowers of lands, by those performing fire-sacrifices, by individuals each devoted to a single wife, men giving away a thousand kine, persons tending their preceptors, and individuals renouncing lives by fasting.
या गतिः सर्वभूतानां स्वाध्यायात् तपसश्च या। भूमिदस्याहिताग्नेश्च एकपत्नीव्रतस्य च ॥ गोसहस्रप्रदातॄणां गुरुसेवाभृतामपि। देहन्यासकृतां या च तां गतिं गच्छ पुत्रक॥