vitta -- for wealth; eshanam -- the desire; yajna -- by sacrifices; danaih -- and by charity; grihaih -- by engagement in household affairs; dara -- for wife; suta -- and children; eshanam -- the desire; atma -- for oneself; loka -- for an exalted planet (in the next life); eshanam -- the desire; deva -- O saintly Vasudeva; kalena -- because of time; visrijet -- one should renounce; budhah -- who is intelligent; grame -- for household life; tyakta -- who renounced; eshanah -- their desires; sarve -- all; yayuh -- they went; dhirah -- sober sages; tapah -- of austerities; vanam -- to the forest.

An intelligent person should learn to renounce his desire for wealth by performing sacrifices and acts of charity. He should learn to renounce his desire for wife and children by experiencing family life. And he should learn to renounce his desire for promotion to a higher planet in his next life, O saintly Vasudeva, by studying the effects of time. Self-controlled sages who have thus renounced their attachment to household life go to the forest to perform austerities.