Verse 10

⁵Your word is right, brahmin, faultless one, who know everything. The darkness in me is falling apart as you tell the story of Hari. ⁶I want to know still more: how the Bhagavan, by a maya that is his own, sends forth this world, which even the ruling lords can hardly think out; ⁷how the all-pervading one guards it, and how again he draws it back in; and taking his stand upon one power after another, how the supreme Person, whose powers are many, making himself play and playing himself, makes and unmakes. ⁸Surely, brahmin, what the Bhagavan Hari does, whose works are wonderful, seems past the working out even of those who see.

⁹How he, being one, bears the strands of nature in many ways, all at once or one after another, doing his works through his births. ¹⁰This is my doubt; let the revered one tell me how it stands, for you have surely gone to the bottom of the Brahman that is sound, and of the one beyond it.