Verse 20

²⁰Amsuman, sent by the king, went in search of the horse along the track his uncles had dug; and near a heap of ash he saw the horse. ²¹Seeing the sage seated there, called Kapila, beyond the reach of the senses, that great man bowed with his hands folded and with a settled mind praised him. ²²Amsuman said: The unborn, who came of the supreme Self, does not see you, and does not know you even now for all his settlings of the mind. How much less the others, we who were made from the pouring out of his mind and body and understanding, and have no light of our own. ²³Those who wear bodies, in whom the three strands are uppermost, see the strands, or else they see darkness. Their minds bewildered by your maya, they do not know you, who stand within them, since their light falls outward.

²⁴You are a solid mass of knowing, whom sages beginning with Sanandana can hold in mind, sages in whom the delusions of maya, of the strands and their divisions, are broken down by their own nature. How should I, a dull man, hold you in mind at all? ²⁵You who are at peace, who bear the marks of maya, of the strands and of action, you have no name and no form; you are free of what is and what is not; and you have taken a body in order to teach knowledge. We bow to you, ancient Person. ²⁶In a world put together by your maya, taking houses and such things for real, men wander about, their minds thrown off by desire and greed and envy and delusion.

²⁷Today, self of every being, the tight cord of our delusion, which lies in desire and works and the senses, has been cut through, Bhagavan, by the sight of you.