Verse 23

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And how he plays, and how he sits apart· Verses 19–23

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the counting up of the realities, and their marks, and the marks of a cause; the rule for worshipping the Person, and for the yoga that turns upon the self; the way to the mastery held by the lords of yoga, and the breaking of the subtle body for those who practise it; the Vedas and the lesser Vedas and the law books, and the old chronicles and the ancient tellings; the flooding away of all beings, their striding out and their going back again; and what rule there is for sacrifice and for public works, for rites done with a wish, and for the three ends of life; and the sending forth of those who lie down within him, and how false doctrine comes to be; and the binding and the release of the self, and how it stands in its own form;

how the Bhagavan, who leans on nothing but himself, plays with his own maya; and how, having let maya go, the all-pervading one sits apart like a witness.