Verse 7

⁷By his own duty, which was to guard his people and feed them and gladden them and care for them and instruct them, and by sacrifice and the rest, whose mark is that the highest good is given over with the whole self to the Bhagavan, the great Person, Brahman both high and low; and by a yoga of devotion to the Bhagavan that came of serving the feet of those who know Brahman, his mind was worked over again and again until it was utterly clean. He had done with counting the not-self his own; and though the experience of Brahman as the self was there in him to be had, he guarded the earth with no pride in it at all.

⁸Son of Pandu, those who know the old times sing this song of him. ⁹What king matches Gaya by his works? A sacrificer who could be proud of it, learned in much, a guardian of dharma, one on whom good fortune came, master of the assembly of the good, servant of the good — who else, apart from a portion of the Bhagavan? ¹⁰The daughters of Daksa, faithful and true in their blessing, poured river water over him in the greatest joy; and for the people of him who wanted nothing for himself, the earth let down her udder to the calf of his virtues and milked out her blessings. ¹¹For him who wanted nothing the metres yielded up what he wanted, and kings brought him tribute; and the brahmins he had honoured gave him, when he had gone, a sixth part of their blessings, for he had held to dharma in war.

¹²At his sacrifice the Bhagavan, whose very self is sacrifice, took up the fruit of the offering, given over by faith and by an unmixed and unmoving yoga of devotion, while Indra grew drunk on his great draught of soma. ¹³Please him at the sacrificial grass, and gods, animals, men, creepers and grass are pleased at once, up to Virinci; for he is the life of everything. Pleased himself, he came to take pleasure in Gaya.