Verse 14

⁷And in Harivarsa the Bhagavan stands in the form of the man-lion. Why he took that form I shall tell later. Prahlada, in whom the qualities of the great Person are lodged, great among the Lord's own, whose bearing and conduct have made a holy ford of the families of the Daityas and the Danavas, worships that dear form with an undivided yoga of devotion that lets nothing come between, together with the men of that region; and he says this. ⁸Om. Homage to the Bhagavan, to the man-lion. Homage to the fire of fire. Come out, come out, you whose nails are the thunderbolt, whose teeth are the thunderbolt. Burn out, burn out the beds where our works lie. Swallow, swallow the darkness. Om, hail. Let there be safety, safety, in the self. Om ksraum.

⁹Let there be well-being for the world. Let the cruel man grow kind. Let beings think each other's good in their minds. Let the mind take to what is good in the one beyond the reach of the senses. And let our understanding, wanting nothing by it, enter him. ¹⁰Let us not be attached to house and wife and children and money and kin; if we must be attached, let it be to those who are dear to the Bhagavan. A man who holds himself, content with what keeps his breath going, is not far from fulfilment; not so the man who is fond of his senses. ¹¹There is a holy ford that comes of his company and carries the greatness of his own power. For those who touch it again and again, the unborn one, gone inside them by way of hearing, takes out of their minds what the body has bred there. Who then would not serve the mighty deeds of Mukunda?

¹²In a man who has a devotion to the Bhagavan that owns nothing, there the gods live with all their qualities. Where are the great qualities to come from in a man not devoted to Hari, who runs outward after the unreal on the wish of his mind? ¹³Hari the Bhagavan is himself the self of everything that has a body, as water is what fish want. If a great man leaves him and clings to his house, then his greatness is the greatness of a husband and wife counted out in years. ¹⁴So let go of the house, that ring of the round of birth, the root of passion, longing, dejection, anger, pride, craving, fear and misery, and take to the feet of the man-lion, where there is nothing to fear from any side.