Verse 35

³⁰Best among the best of the twice-born, does your duty go on for you without too much hardship, the duty the elders approve, and is your mind always content? ³¹When a brahmin is content with whatever comes, and does not fall away from his own duty, that duty milks every wish for him. ³²A man not content, though he were lord of the gods, gets world after world and is not filled; a man content, though he has nothing, lies down with the fever gone from every limb. ³³To brahmins content with what comes to them, good men, the truest friends of all beings, free of I-making, at peace, I bow my head again and again. ³⁴Brahmin, is it well with you all, from the king? A king in whose land the people live happily, being kept, is dear to me.

³⁵You have come here of your own wish, crossing hard country. Tell us all of it, if it is not a secret. What needs doing? What are we to do for you?