Verse 1

¹Kapila, who counts out what is real, the Bhagavan, unborn, was born of himself by his own maya, plainly, so that men should come to know the self. ²My breath is not filled, however much I hear of him, greatest of persons, highest of all yogins, the god of what is heard. ³Whatever the Bhagavan brings about by his own maya, whose self goes as it pleases, tell those things out to me, who trust them: they are worth the telling again. ⁴So the revered Maitreya, friend of Dvaipayana, was pleased, and being stirred to it by this reasoned asking he said this to Vidura: