Verse 17

¹³Those who say that a man seated on the highest seat should rise for no one at all do not know what the higher dharma is. ¹⁴Those who trust the word of such teachers of the wrong road, men falling headlong into the dark, sink as people sink who cross on rafts of stone. ¹⁵So I will go without guile to the teacher of the immortals, the twice-born man whose mind has no floor to it, and win him over, touching his feet with my head. ¹⁶While Maghavan was thinking in this way, the revered Brhaspati left his house by a way that could not be seen, using a power of his own inward art. ¹⁷Search as he would, the revered, self-ruling one found no sign of his teacher; and thinking hard about it with the gods, he could get no peace of mind.