Whatever may be earned by us and others, whether people spend it or not, it would bring us misery when the time would come. Why then people become so anxious to earn wealth? If what is acquired is the result of Fate, then it should be protected, so that is may not be divided nor protected, so that it may not be divided nor lost little by little nor permitted to flow out at once, for if unprotected it may break into one one hundred fragments. But whatever the character of our possession may be, our acts in this world are never lost.
वित्तं न दद्युः पुरुषाः कथंचित्। प्राप्यार्थकालं च भवेदनर्थ: कथं न तत् स्यादिति तत् कुतः स्यात्॥ कथं न भिद्येत न च स्रवेत न च प्रसिच्येदिति रक्षितव्यम्। अरक्ष्यमाणं शतधा प्रकीर्येद् ध्रुवं न नाशोऽस्ति कृतस्य लोके॥