Verse 22

²²Having got a human birth, which the undying long for, and in it the first rank among the twice-born, those who make nothing of it and kill their own good go a course that is not good. ²³Having come to this world, the door to heaven and to release, what man who must die would cling to money, the house of what is not good? ²⁴Not sharing with gods, sages, fathers and beings, nor with kinsmen and relatives who have a claim, nor with himself, the man whose wealth is a yaksa's falls down. ²⁵By a useless striving after money, the wealth of a heedless man is spent, and the strength of his years, by which the skilful come to their end. Now that I am old, what shall I accomplish?

²⁶Why does a man who knows better torment himself again and again with a useless striving after money? Surely this world is thoroughly bewildered by somebody's maya. ²⁷What are riches, or those who give riches; what are pleasures, or those who give pleasures; what are works that give birth again, to a man who is being swallowed by death? ²⁸Surely the Bhagavan is pleased with me, Hari, in whom all the gods are, since he has brought me to this state. Weariness with it all is the raft of the self. ²⁹So I, with the time that is left, will dry up this body of mine, not heedless about the whole of my own good, if what is to be gained is gained in the self.

³⁰In this let the gods, the lords of the three worlds, be glad with me. In a single hour Khatvanga made his way to the world of Brahma.