Verse 26
The work done, the heart unsatisfied· Verses 26–31
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26Twice-born ones, though he was thus always at work for the good of beings, and with his whole being, his heart even so was not satisfied. 27His heart not much at ease, seated apart on the clean bank of the Sarasvati, turning it over, the knower of dharma said this: 28With my vows held firm and without any pretence, I have honoured the metres, the teachers and the fires, and I have taken up what they instruct. 29And under the name of the Bharata the meaning of the tradition has been shown, where dharma and the rest can be seen even by women and by sudras. 30Yet even so, alas, my embodied self, and the pervading self as well, appear unfulfilled, for all that they stand highest in the lustre of sacred learning.
31Or is it that I have not, for the most part, set out the dharma of the Lord's own, dear to the highest swans, and dear indeed to the Unfallen himself?