Verse 1

¹Having praised Prthu so, whose lip was quivering with anger, the earth in her fear steadied herself by herself and spoke again: ²Master, hold your anger in and take in what I tell you. A wise man draws the essence out of everything, as the bee does. ³For this world or the next, the sages who see what is real have found the ways and have used them, so that men may come to what is good. ⁴One who rightly takes up the means that were shown before, even a lesser man, if he has trust, comes readily to the ends they lead to. ⁵But a man without knowledge who slights them and sets out on his own after what he wants finds that it miscarries, again and again, however often he begins.