Verse 50

⁴⁶Waited on in this way by those sages who speak of Brahman, the guardian set the earth down on the water that his own hooves had trodden. ⁴⁷So the Bhagavan, Visvaksena, the lord of creatures, Hari, having laid the wide earth on the waters after lifting her in play out of the deep, went his way. ⁴⁸Whoever hears with devotion this good and lovely story of Hari, whose mind takes ill away and whose maya is worth the telling, or has others hear it, will find that Janardana is soon pleased within his heart. ⁴⁹And when he is pleased, the lord of every blessing, what then is hard to come by? Enough of those blessings; they are scraps. To those who serve him with an eye that looks nowhere else, he who lies in the cave, higher than the highest, himself gives his own highest course.

⁵⁰Who in this world, knowing the pith of what a man is for, having drunk with the cupped hands of his ears the nectar of the telling of the Bhagavan out of the old tellings, which takes this becoming away, would ever, alas, turn from it, unless he were something other than a man?