Verse 32
The vow of the python· Verses 32–35
32When the Bhagavan saw that this world plainly ran against yoga, and that the work of setting it right was a loathsome business, he took up the vow of the python. Lying where he was, he ate and drank and chewed, passed water and voided; and as he stirred about, the place was smeared with what came out of him. 33And the wind that carried the sweetness of his dung made that country fragrant for ten yojanas all around. 34So, going and standing and sitting and lying in the manner of a cow, a deer and a crow, and doing as a crow and a deer and a cow do, he drank and chewed and passed water. 35So the Bhagavan Rsabha, lord of aloneness, went through the practices of many yogas, knowing the highest and greatest joy without a break. He was full and complete in every attainment through his sense of the Bhagavan Vasudeva, who is the self of himself and the self of all beings, with nothing standing between and nothing nearer within. King, the lordships of yoga came to him unasked, travelling the air, the speed of the mind, vanishing, entering another's body, taking hold of what is far away and the rest; and he did not welcome them in his heart at all.