Verse 17

¹⁴So praised aloud by Maghavan, the Bhagavan, Krsna, smiling, said this to him in a voice deep as a cloud. ¹⁵Bhagavan said: Maghavan, it was out of kindness that I broke your sacrifice, since you were badly drunk on Indra's splendour, so that you might always remember me. ¹⁶A man blinded by the drunkenness of lordship and splendour does not see me standing with the rod in my hand. The one to whom I want to be kind, I bring down from his riches. ¹⁷Go, Sakra; may it be well with you. Do as I instruct you. Stay within your own offices, attentive, and without stiffness.