All the penances that have been practised by you and all those that you will practised in the future of hundreds and thousands of years are more cfficacious than truth.
तपांसि यानि चीर्णानि चरिष्यन्ति च यत् तपः। शतैः शतसहस्रैश्च तैः सत्यान्न विशिष्यते॥