Verse 21

¹⁶But those here whose minds cling to acts, and who are full of trust, do everything that is not forbidden, and the daily rites as well, and do all of it entirely. ¹⁷Their minds blunted by passion, their selves made out of wanting, their senses unmastered, they worship the fathers day after day, their hearts at home in the house. ¹⁸Those men of the three ends have their faces turned away from the story of the enemy of Madhu, whose mind takes ill away and whose great valour is worth telling. ¹⁹Surely fate has struck them down, who leave aside the nectar of the story of the Unfallen and listen to worthless tales instead, as the eaters of filth eat dung.

²⁰They go by the southern road of Aryaman to the world of the fathers, and, having done the rites that end at the burning ground, they are born again after their own children. ²¹Then, good lady, with their good deeds worn away, they fall helpless back to this world, their rising cut short by the gods in a moment.