Verse 14

¹⁴Whatever else than that a man means to set out, seeing things apart, by the names and forms he has himself made of them, his understanding finds no resting place anywhere, ill at ease, as a boat struck by the wind finds none. ¹⁵For one who teaches, in the name of dharma, what deserves contempt, to people already coloured by their own bent, the transgression is great: on the strength of his word another stands in it as dharma, and does not consider that it should be checked. ¹⁶The discerning deserve to know, by turning away, the happiness of the pervading one who has no far shore. So show forth the doings of the pervading one for the sake of one who has no self of his own and is carried along by the strands.

¹⁷If a man leaves his own duty and, worshipping the lotus feet of Hari, should fall while still unripe, where in that is the harm to him, and what is it? And what has the man gained who does not worship, though he keeps his duty? ¹⁸For that alone let the discerning strive, which is not got by those who wander above and below. What comes from elsewhere comes as sorrow comes, by time, whose force runs deep everywhere. ¹⁹A person who has served Mukunda never by any means goes back to the round of birth as others do; for remembering the embrace of Mukunda's feet he will not wish to leave it again, having once taken hold of the taste.