When with the help of even such austere penances of offerings devoutly given in sacrifices, we could not see the great Deity, how, indeed, can you except to see Him so easily?
एवं सुतपसा चैव हव्यकव्यैस्तथैव च॥ देवोऽस्माभिर्न दृष्टः स कथं त्वं द्रष्टुमर्हसि।