Verse 41

³⁶Living on bulbs and seeds, on roots and fruits, on flowers and leaves, on grass and water, he took up little by little an austerity that wasted the body. ³⁷Cold and heat, wind and rain, hunger and thirst, the pleasing and the unpleasing, ease and pain: these pairs he mastered, and saw them all alike. ³⁸His stain burnt out by austerity and knowing, by the restraints and the observances, his senses and breath and mind mastered, he joined the self to Brahman. ³⁹He stayed in one place, steady as a post, a hundred years of the gods, and knew nothing else, carrying his love for Vasudeva the Bhagavan. ⁴⁰Knowing the self as spread through everything and as standing apart within himself, and knowing the witness of every touch to be like a dream, he came to rest.

⁴¹By the Bhagavan himself, king, by Hari for his teacher, who had spoken to him, by a lamp of clean knowing that blazed out on every side of the world,