Verse 57

⁵¹Revered one, you have carried out for me everything you promised. Even so, I have come to you for refuge, and you should give me freedom from fear. ⁵²Brahmin, your daughters must have husbands sought out for them who are their match. Who will there be to take my grief away, once you have gone out to the forest? ⁵³Enough of the time that has gone by for me, master, in clinging to what the senses want, with the supreme Self left aside. ⁵⁴Clinging to what the senses want, I made my attachment to you, not knowing your highest state. Even so, let it stand for my freedom from fear. ⁵⁵The attachment that a poor mind sets on what is unreal is the cause of the round of birth. That same attachment, made to the good, works towards being free of attachment.

⁵⁶Here, a man whose work does not serve dharma, or detachment, or the service of him whose feet are a ford, is dead although he is living. ⁵⁷Surely I have been badly cheated by the maya of the Bhagavan, in that having got you, who give release, I did not want release from my bondage.