Markandeyapurana 45.5

45.5

saṃsāre 'smin manuṣyāṇāṃ bhramatāmatisaṅkaṭe /
bhavadvidhaiḥ samaṃ saṅgo jāyate nātapasvinām //

Jaimini spoke:
Ye have well related this to me, O noble brāhmans, both activity and inactivity, the two-fold deeds enjoined by the Veda. Ah, through your father’s favour, ye have such knowledge as this, by which ye have overcome folly although ye have descended to this animal state. Happy are ye in that your mind, steadfast in your pristine state towards the attainment of final emancipation, is not swayed by the bewilderments that spring from objects of sense. O joy that the wise lord Mārkaṇḍeya made you known to me as the dissipators of every doubt! For men who wander in this closely-thronged mundane existence there is available association with such as your honours; not for ascetics. If I after gaining association with you who have perspicacity in knowledge should not succeed in my object, then assuredly[1] there can be no success for me elsewhere. Both in activity and in inactivity, in knowledge and deed, no one else has, I think, a mind so unsullied as your honours have.