Verse 5

⁵When his father had set out for the forest, the Bhagavan Kapila stayed there at Bindusara, wanting to do what would please his mother. ⁶Devahuti, remembering the Ordainer's word, said this to her own son as he sat there doing no work, showing the very head of the road to what is real: ⁷I am worn out utterly, boundless one, by the senses thirsting after what is unreal; and by making much of that thirst I have come into blind dark, my lord. ⁸Today, at the end of my births, by your kindness I have got you, who carry a person across that blind dark so hard to cross, you who are the eye of what is true. ⁹It is you, surely, who are the first Bhagavan, the Lord of all persons, risen like the sun to be an eye for a world that darkness has blinded.

¹⁰So now, god, you should draw this bewilderment off me, this holding on that says I and mine, which you yourself set going in me. ¹¹I have come for refuge to you who give refuge, the axe at the tree of the round of birth for those who serve you. Wanting to know about nature and about the Person, I bow to you, the best of those who know the true dharma. ¹²Hearing his mother's wish, which had nothing in it to fault and makes release grow in men, he welcomed it in his mind, and being himself the way of the good who possess themselves, he spoke, his face lit with a slight smile.