Arundhati said The great progress I have been able to make in penances is owing to your consideration for me in thus remembering my poor self. With your gracious permission I shall now describe duties that are eternal, and are great mysteries. I shall describe them with the causes on which they depend. Listen to me as I describe them to you in full. A knowledge of these should be communicated to him only who has faith or who has a pure heart. These four viz., he who is bereft of faith, he who is full of pride, he who is guilty of Brahmanicide, and he who violates the bed of his preceptor, should never be talked to. Religion and duty should never be communicated to them.
अरुन्धत्युवाच तपोवृद्धिर्मया प्राप्ता भवतां स्मरणेन वै। भवतां च प्रसादेन धर्मान् वक्ष्यामि शाश्वतान्॥ सगुह्यान् सरहस्यांश्च ताशृणुध्वमशेषतः। श्रद्दधाने प्रयोक्तव्या यस्य शुद्धं तथा मनः॥ अश्रद्दधानो मानी च ब्रह्महा गुरुतल्पगः। असम्भाष्या हि चत्वारो नैषां धर्मः प्रकाशयेत्॥