Verse 47

⁴¹So addressed by Kapila, the lord of creatures went round him in reverence and, glad at heart, went straight to the forest. ⁴²He took up the vow of silence with the self alone for his refuge. Attached to nothing, without a fire and without a house, the sage wandered the earth. ⁴³He set his mind on Brahman, which is beyond what is and what is not, which lights up the strands and has none of its own, and is known by a single-hearted devotion. ⁴⁴Without I-making, without any mine, past the pairs, seeing all alike, seeing his own self, turned inward with his thought stilled, steady as the sea when its waves have gone down;

⁴⁵having found himself in Vasudeva, the Bhagavan, who knows everything and is the self turned within, by the highest state of devotion, his bondage undone; ⁴⁶he saw the self, the Bhagavan, standing in all beings, and he saw all beings in the Bhagavan and in the self as well. ⁴⁷Free of wanting and of hating, with a mind the same everywhere, and joined by devotion to the Bhagavan, he reached the way that belongs to the Bhagavan.