Verse 1
How can a child's play be his· Verses 1–7
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1To Maitreya, who had spoken so, the wise son of Dvaipayana, Vidura, replied, and his words were like a kindness done to him. 2Brahmin, how can strands and actions be joined, even in play, to the Bhagavan, who is awareness and nothing else, who does not change and is beyond the strands? 3A child sets about playing because he wants to play with others. But how should that be in one who is satisfied out of himself and has always turned away from anything other? 4The Bhagavan sent out all this by his own maya, which is made of the strands; by her he holds it standing, and by her again he will shut it away. 5He whose self is a waking never cut off by place, by time, by state, by himself or by anything else: how could he be joined to the unborn one?
6This Bhagavan is one and stands in every field. How then should ill fortune be his, or trouble come to him from works? 7Learned one, my mind wears itself out in this narrow place of not knowing. Push it away from us, mighty one, that great darkening of the mind.