Verse 26

²⁰Rahugana, you too: lay down the rod, make yourself a friend to living things, hold your self to nothing, and taking up the sword of knowledge, sharpened by serving Hari, cross to the far side of this road. ²¹Ah, birth as a man is the fairest of all births. But what are other births worth, even in the world beyond, if there is not in them plenty of meeting with great souls like you, who have made themselves out of the fame of the lord of the senses? ²²It is no wonder that in one whose wrongs the dust of your lotus feet has struck away, devotion to the one beyond the reach of the senses is clean. In an hour of company with you, the want of discernment in me, rooted in bad reasoning, has been struck down.

²³Bow to the great, and bow to children, and bow to young men, and bow to boys not yet grown. Whatever brahmins walk the earth with the marks of those shaken off, from them let there be good for kings. ²⁴Mother of Uttara, in this way that son of a seer of Brahman, whose power reached beyond, out of the greatest kindness taught the lord of the Sindhus, who was weighing it up, what the self truly is; and with his feet honoured by Rahugana in pity, he went about this earth, the waves and stores of his senses held still, like a sea that is full. ²⁵And the lord of Sauvira too, having come by a good man to understand what the supreme Self truly is, threw off the notion that the body is the self, which ignorance had laid upon him. Such, king, is the power of those who have taken shelter with those who have taken shelter with the Bhagavan.

²⁶You who know much, great among the Lord's own: this road of becoming in the world of the living that you have set out here in words that go by a turn has its matter made out by the thought of the noble, and people not schooled in it cannot come at it straight. So let this same thing, hard to make out, be pointed out by a likeness of things that fit together.