Verse 61

⁶¹Burning in the fire of the Unconquered's weapon, he fell at his feet trembling and said: Unfallen, Endless, whom the good long for, master: I have done wrong, and I ask you to guard me, maker of the world. ⁶²Not knowing your highest power, I did a wrong against those who are dear to you. Ordainer, make an undoing of it: at the mere uttering of your name even one in hell goes free. ⁶³Bhagavan said: Brahmin, I am under the sway of those devoted to me, as though I had no will of my own. My heart has been eaten up by the good who are devoted to me. I love the people who are devoted. ⁶⁴I do not want my own self without those good people devoted to me, brahmin, nor the fortune that has no end. I am the highest way they go.

⁶⁵Those who have left wives, houses, sons, friends and their own lives, and this wealth and the wealth beyond it, and have come to me for refuge: how could I bring myself to let them go?