Verse 19

¹⁹The meeting of the good is welcome to both sides, since the talk and the questions among them spread peace to everyone. ²⁰King, you have that love, hard to come by, for the telling over of the qualities of the lotus feet of the enemy of Madhu: a love that stands firm and shakes out desire, the stain and dye of the inmost self. ²¹In the books, for those who weigh them all together, just this much and no more is set down as the sure cause of a man's safety: an unattached and settled love for the self that lies beyond the self, and for Brahman beyond the strands. ²²That love comes by trust, by living the dharma of the Bhagavan, by wanting to know, by holding steadily to the yoga of the inner self, by worship of the lord of yoga without a break, and by the holy story of him whose hearing makes clean;

²³by thirsting no more for the company of those whose pleasure ground is wealth and the senses, by taking nothing that such men value, by a liking for solitude, by a contentment in the self with everything except the drinking of the nectar of Hari's qualities; ²⁴by not harming, by the practice of the highest swans, by remembrance, by the choice wine of Mukunda's doings, by restraints held without wanting anything and by observances, by not finding fault, by wanting nothing, by bearing the pairs; ²⁵and by devotion swelling with the naming, again and again, of Hari's qualities, which fill the ears of those given to him. So comes detachment from what is not the self, real or unreal, and an easy love for Brahman beyond the strands.