Verse 13

⁹So they heard the Bhagavan's asking and did not hear it: their hopes small, their ritual work heavy, childish, and taking themselves for grown men. ¹⁰Place, time, the several things laid out, the mantras and the procedure, the priests, the fires, the god, the sacrificer, the rite and the dharma — the one of whom all these are made, ¹¹him, the highest Brahman himself, the Bhagavan beyond the reach of the senses, they did not recognize; their understanding was poor, they looked with human eyes, and their selves were mortal. ¹²They did not say yes and they did not say no, scorcher of enemies; and the cowherds came back with nothing and told Krsna and Rama how it had gone.

¹³Hearing it, the Bhagavan, the Lord of the world, laughed and spoke to the cowherds again, showing them the way the world goes.