Verse 19

¹⁴The Bhagavan named Rsabha stands on himself; for him the long chain of harm has ceased for good; what he knows is unmixed joy; he is the Lord and nothing less. Yet he set about works as though he were the opposite of all that, and by doing them he taught the dharma that had come down with time to those who did not know it. Even, calm, friendly, full of pity, he held the world to its households by holding out to it dharma and wealth and fame and children and delight and what does not die. ¹⁵Whatever the man at the head does, that is what the world does after him. ¹⁶Though the whole of dharma, the secret teaching of the Veda, was known to him of himself, he guided the people by the road the brahmins showed, and by the means that begin with soft speech.

¹⁷He sacrificed a hundred times over, as he had been taught, with every one of the offerings, each made full in its substance, its place, its time, its season of life, its trust, its priest and its several aims. ¹⁸In that region, guarded by the Bhagavan Rsabha, no man ever wanted a thing that was not there, as though no such thing existed; and no man ever looked to anyone but himself for anything at any time, except that toward their lord there was, hour after hour, a love that opened out beyond all measure. ¹⁹Once, as he went about, the Bhagavan Rsabha came to Brahmavarta, and in an assembly of the foremost brahmin sages, while the people listened, he spoke as follows, teaching his sons, who were attentive and already well held in by modesty and by the weight of their love.