Verse 1

कः पिता किं च वा मित्रं का माता के च बान्धवाः ।स्वबुद्ध्यैवावधूयन्ते वात्यया जनपांसवः

In plain words

Who is a father? Or what is a friend? Who is a mother, and who are kinsmen? By their own notions alone are men, those specks of dust, tossed and scattered -- as by a whirlwind.