Verse 34
Sacrifice, and the three debts· Verses 34–39
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34Then the sages spoke, king, addressing Anakadundubhi, while all the kings listened, and the Unfallen and Rama too. 35The undoing of work by work has been well set out in this: that with trust a man should worship Visnu, lord of every sacrifice, with offerings. 36This is the quieting of the mind. The seers, with scripture for eyes, have shown it: a yoga easy to go by, and a dharma that brings gladness to the self. 37This is the path that goes to well-being for a twice-born householder: that with trust, and with wealth honestly come by and clean, the Person should be worshipped. 38A wise man should let go in time the longing for wealth by sacrifice and gift, the longing for wife and sons by the household, and the longing for a world of his own, lord. All the steady ones who gave up longing in the village went to the forest of austerity.
39A twice-born man is born with three debts, lord: to the gods, the sages and the fathers. If he lets them go without crossing them by sacrifice, by study and by sons, he falls.