Hearing these words of his disciples, Vyasa, the son of Parashara, endued with great intelligence, well conversant with the meanings of the Vedas, endued with a pious soul, and always engaged in thinking of objects that grant benefits on a person in the next world, said to his disciples these righteous words, fraught with great benefit:-The Vedas should always be given to him, who is a Brahmana, or to him who is desirous of listening to Vedic instructions, by him who eagerly wishes to acquire a residence in the region of Brahman.
शिष्याणां वचनं श्रुत्वा व्यासो वेदार्थतत्त्ववित्। पराशरात्मजो धीमान् परलोकार्थचिन्तकः॥ उवाच शिष्यान् धर्मात्मा धन॑ नैःश्रेयसं वचः। ब्राह्मणाय सदा देयं ब्रह्म शुश्रूषवे तथा॥