Verse 40

³⁵Ksatta, who would dare to set out this rising of the strength of the Bhagavan's yogamaya, whose form is god and work and self? ³⁶Still I shall tell it, friend, as far as my mind goes and as I have heard it, to do honour to Hari's fame, and to set right my own speech, which is untrue when it names anything else. ³⁷They call the one sure gain of men's speech the telling of the qualities of him whose crown is holy verse; and the gain of hearing, the joining of it to that nectar of story which the learned have set out. ³⁸The greatness of the self was made out, child, by the first seer, at the end of a thousand years, with a mind ripened by yoga.

³⁹So the maya of the Bhagavan bewilders even those who make maya; for the self does not itself know its own road, and what then of the rest? ⁴⁰From whom words turn back with the mind, not having reached him: to that Bhagavan, from me and from these other gods, salutation.