Verse 33

³³Whatever fate has laid out for a man, if he wears his body and is content with that in pleasure and in pain, he reaches the far side of the dark. ³⁴From a man of better qualities take gladness, from a lesser one pity, from an equal friendship. Then the burnings do not overcome you. ³⁵This is the calm that you, revered one, have shown out of pity for men whose selves are struck about by pleasure and pain; and it is hard for such as us to see. ³⁶Even so, for me, untrained and come into the harsh temper of a kshatriya, it does not lodge in a heart pierced through by the arrows of Suruci's foul words. ³⁷Brahmin, tell me a good road, for I mean to win a station higher than the three worlds, one that neither our fathers nor anyone else has held.

³⁸Surely you, born from the body of the revered one who is highest placed, go about plucking your vina for the good of the world, as the sun goes. ³⁹Hearing this said, the revered Narada was pleased, and out of pity he answered the boy with a true word.