Verse 8

⁵When by time the worlds have gone wholly back into the five, and their guardians with them, and all that they came from, then there was darkness, thick and deep; and beyond it he shines out, who is everywhere. ⁶The gods do not know his standing place, nor the sages; what creature then is fit to reach it or to speak it? He is as hard to follow as an actor moving about in his shapes. May he guard me. ⁷Sages of great goodness, wanting to see that most auspicious standing place of his, their clinging loosed, keep in the forest a vow not of this world and without a flaw, having become the self of every being, friends to all. He is my going.

⁸He has no birth and no action, no name and no form, no merit and no fault; and yet, for the passing away of the worlds and their coming to be, he takes these on by his own maya as the time asks.