Verse 9

⁹In the region of Bharata the Bhagavan called Nara-Narayana, whose going cannot be seen, practises austerity until the age ends, an austerity in which dharma, knowledge, detachment, mastery, quiet, ceasing and the finding of the self are heaped up together, for the grace of those who possess themselves, out of pity for them. ¹⁰The revered Narada comes to him with the deepest feeling of devotion. He is to teach Savarni the telling of the Bhagavan's power, by the enumeration and the yoga the Bhagavan himself declared, for the people of Bharata with their classes and stages; and he praises him in these words. ¹¹Om. Homage to the Bhagavan, whose nature is quiet, who has done with taking the not-self for himself. Homage to him who is the wealth of those who own nothing, bull among sages, Nara-Narayana, highest swan, highest of teachers, master of those who take their pleasure in the self. Homage, and homage again.

¹²And he sings this: He makes this world rise and does the rest, and is not bound by it. He goes into a body and is not killed by what belongs to the body. He is the seer, and his seeing is not spoiled by the strands. Homage to him, the witness who is unattached and set apart. ¹³Lord of yoga, this is the skill in yoga that the revered Hiranyagarbha declared: that at the last hour a man should let this poor body go and by devotion set his mind on you, who are beyond the strands. ¹⁴If a man who knows is afraid of the passing of this poor body, as a man greedy for the pleasures of this world and the next is afraid, brooding over his sons and his wife and his money, then whatever he works at is only labour.

¹⁵So, master, one beyond the reach of the senses, set us in a yoga in you that is our own nature, by which we may quickly break the I and the mine, so very hard to break, which your maya has fastened on this poor body.