Verse 20

¹⁴There the faithful woman, carrying her child, served the sage with the highest devotion, for the safety of what was in her womb and for the birth she wanted. ¹⁵The sage was full of pity, and being master of both he gave her both: what dharma truly is, and spotless knowledge. And he had me in view as well. ¹⁶That faded from my mother, because the time was long and because she was a woman. But I had the sage's favour, and the memory of it has not left me even now. ¹⁷It can be yours too, if you trust what I say. Understanding that knows its way comes of trusting, even to women and to children, as it came to me. ¹⁸These six states, beginning with birth, are seen to belong to the body and not to the self, as fruits belong to a tree, and they are brought by time, which is the Lord's own form.

¹⁹The self lasts, it does not waste away, it is pure, it is one, it knows the field, it is the ground; it does not change, it sees by its own light, it is the cause, it spreads through all, it clings to nothing, nothing covers it. ²⁰By these twelve high marks of the self a man who knows should let go the false hold, born of confusion, that says I and mine of the body and the rest.