Vasudeva said Upamanyu, who appeared to shine like the sun, said to me Those sinful men who are sullied with impious deeds, do not succeed in attaining to Ishana. Having their nature sullied by the qualities of Darkness and Ignorance they can never approach the Supreme Deity. It is only those twiceborn persons who are of purified souls that succeed in attaining to the Supreme Deity.
वासुदेव उवाच युधिष्ठिरं धर्मनिधि पुरुहूतपिवेश्वरः। उपमन्युर्मयि प्राह तपन्निव दिवाकरः॥ अशुभैः पापकर्माणो ये नराः कलुषीकृतः। ईशानं न प्रपद्यन्ते तमोराजसवृत्तयः॥