Verse 20

¹⁵A king or a teacher who wants my world and seeks my favour should teach his sons and his pupils in this way, without anger, when they do not know it. He should not set men already bewildered by work to more work. What would he gain by it, pushing one whose sight is gone into a pit? ¹⁶People have lost sight of their own good. They go after gain, wanting one thing after another, at odds with each other for a scrap of pleasure; and bewildered, they do not know its endless pain. ¹⁷What man who knows this himself, and is wise, would look at one caught inside his ignorance and then, out of pity, set that ill-minded man to it again, as though sending a blind man off the road?

¹⁸He is no teacher, he is no kinsman, he is no father, she is no mother, that is no god and he is no husband, who cannot set free one who has come to death. ¹⁹This body of mine is hard to make out. Clarity is my heart, and dharma lives there; wrongdoing I have put far behind my back. That is why the noble call me the bull. ²⁰So all of you, born of my heart, serve this greater one, your own brother Bharata, with an untroubled mind. Waiting on him is the upholding of the people.