Verse 24

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He is bound to his own people· Verses 19–24

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By pity for all beings, by being content with whatever comes, and by the quieting of every sense, Janardana is quickly pleased. Called by a feeling grown unbroken in a self made spotless, with every craving struck out of it, the Unfailing one, going under the sway of his own people, does not slip away from the good, as open space does not. Hari does not take the offering of the ill-minded, for he loves those who have no wealth, whose wealth is the self, and he knows what has savour. Those drunk on learning, wealth, family and works do wrong to the good, who own nothing. Full in himself, he does not take up with Sri, who follows after him, nor with the lords of two-footed creatures who want her, nor with the gods; he is bound instead to the company of his own servants. How could a man who knows what has been done for him ever let him go?

So, king, having made the Pracetas hear this and other accounts of the Bhagavan, the sage born of the self-born went to Brahma's world. And they, hearing the fame of Hari that came from his mouth and takes away the world's stain, meditated on his foot and went the way he goes.