Verse 1

¹Then the divine sage of great renown, seated at his ease, vina in hand, smiling a little, spoke to the sage among brahmanas who sat attending on him. ²Son of Parasara, greatly favoured one: is your self content in itself? Is the self that is body content, or the self that is mind? ³What you set out to know is well accomplished, and it is great and wonderful: you who made the Bharata, filled out with every purpose. ⁴You have sought to know the eternal Brahman and have studied it. And still, lord, you grieve over yourself as though your purpose were unaccomplished.