Verse 39

यदि वर्षसहस्राणि तपश्चरसि दारुणम् ।यदि वा विलयात्मानं शिलायां चूर्णयस्यलम्

In plain words

Even should you practise a terrible tapas for a thousand years, or grind your very self, given over to dissolution, utterly to powder upon a rock —