A person endued with the knowledge of what is essential and what accidental, O king, is very rare,-a man who tries to practise penances, under the conviction that the happiness one enjoys from the possession of such agreeable objects as wives and children brings on ultimately misery.
दुर्लभो हि मनुष्येन्द्र नरः प्रत्यवमर्शवान्। यो वै प्रियसुखे क्षीणे तपः कर्तुं व्यवस्यति॥