That covetousness, however, which is never satisfied by acquisitions and satiated by the fulfilment of desires, that the real nature of which is not known to the gods, the Gandharvas, the Asuras, the great snakes, and, in fact, to all beings, that irresistible passion, together with that foolishness which draws the heart to the unrealities of the world, should always be conquered by a person of purified soul.
नित्यं गम्भीरतोयाभिरापगाभिरिवोदधिः। न प्रहृष्यति यो लाभैः कामैर्यश्च न तृष्यति॥ यों न देवैर्न गन्धर्नासुरैर्न महोरगैः। ज्ञायते नृप तत्त्वेन सर्वैर्भूतगणैस्तथा॥