Verse 4

¹This going of the revered sun, who circles Meru and Dhruva keeping them at his right and yet moves forward facing the signs, which is not the right-hand way: you have described it, revered one, but how are we to work it out? ²Ants and the like that rest on a potter's wheel turn along with the turning wheel, and yet their own going is another thing, since they are found now in one place and now in another. In the same way the moving lights, the sun and the rest, rest on the wheel of time that is marked out by the fixed stars and the signs, and run with it as it runs around Dhruva and Meru by the right; and their own going is another thing, since they are found now in one star and now in another sign.

³He is the Bhagavan, the first Person, Narayana himself. For the welfare of the worlds he divides his own self, which is made of the three Vedas and is the ground of clean action, into twelve, and in the six seasons from spring on he lays out the marks of each season as it takes them. Even the wise seek to know him through the Veda. ⁴Men here, keeping to the practice of class and stage of life, worship him in faith with the threefold knowledge, with the high and the low rites that are handed down, and with the spread of yoga, and so come straight to what is best.