Verse 55

⁵⁵So instructed by the Bhagavan, the lord of the lords of creatures worshipped Hari with his own rite, and then made offering to the gods on both sides. ⁵⁶With his mind gathered he came to Rudra with the share that was his; and with the closing rite he honoured the soma-drinkers and the others as well; and having closed it he took the final bath with the priests. ⁵⁷To him too, who by his own strength had come to his success, they gave a mind set on dharma and nothing else; and those gods went back to heaven. ⁵⁸So Sati, Daksa's daughter, left that earlier body and was born in the field of Himavat, in Mena: so we have heard it.

⁵⁹Ambika chose again that same beloved for her husband, whose one course is a love that turns nowhere else, as a power that has been asleep takes up the Person again. ⁶⁰This deed of the revered Sambhu, who wrecked Daksa's sacrifice, I heard from Uddhava, one of the Lord's own and a pupil of Brhaspati. ⁶¹This highest doing of the Lord is cleansing; it gives fame and long life and wears away a flood of ill. The man who hears it constantly and sings it after shakes off what is ill, Kaurava, out of the feeling of devotion.