Verse 12

⁶So then, though he was the crest-jewel of every guardian of the worlds, no one marked the power of the Bhagavan in him, because of the odd ways he had, dull-seeming, in the dress and the speech and the conduct of a cast-off man. Teaching those of yoga how the going beyond is done, and wanting to be rid of his own body, seeing the self in the self with nothing between and nothing other, he ceased to follow after anything, and came to rest. ⁷The Bhagavan Rsabha had let the mark go, and yet his body, by the leaning left in it from yogamaya, went on moving across this earth with what only looked like self-regard. It came by chance to the lands of the Konkas, the Venkas and the Kutakas, in southern Karnataka; and there, in a grove on the Kutaka hill, with a mouthful of stone held in his mouth, his hair loose and nothing at all on him, he wandered about like a madman.

⁸Then a fierce forest fire, born of the rubbing of bamboos that the force of the wind shook together, licked its way all through that wood and burned it, and him with it. ⁹They say that a king of the Konkas, the Venkas and the Kutakas, named Arhat, will hear of what he did and take a lesson from it. When in the Kali age wrongdoing is being drawn upward, he will be bewildered by what is bound to come, and, being dull, will leave the path of his own duty, which has nothing to fear from any side, and out of his own thinking will set going a crooked road and a false teaching that does not hang together. ¹⁰And through that, in the Kali age, the worst of men, bewildered by the maya of the god, will be without the rule laid on them, without cleanness and without conduct. Each by his own wish will take up bad vows that slight the gods, not bathing, not rinsing the mouth, keeping no cleanness, tearing out their hair and the rest; and with their minds struck down by a Kali thick with wrongdoing, they will for the most part revile Brahman, the brahmins, the Person of sacrifice, and the worlds.

¹¹And they, made confident by a low way of living of their own and by a line of the blind, will fall of their own accord into blind darkness. ¹²This descent was for the teaching of aloneness to those the strand of passion has flooded over.