Verse 1
What have I done, that I should see him· Verses 1–6
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1Akrura too, a man of large mind, having spent that night in Mathura, mounted his chariot and set out for Nanda's Gokula. 2As he went along the road, that greatly favoured man, having come to the highest devotion to the Bhagavan whose eyes are lotuses, thought in this way: 3What good have I done, what highest austerity have I burned through, or what have I given to one who deserved it, that I am to see Kesava today? 4I think this sight of him whose renown is highest is beyond my getting, since my self is in the things of sense, as the chanting of Brahman is beyond one born a sudra. 5And yet not so: even for me, low as I am, the sight of the Unfallen may still come. Someone being carried off by the river of time does now and then get across.
6Today what is inauspicious in me is undone and my birth has borne its fruit, since I am to bow to the lotus feet of the Bhagavan, on which yogins hold their thought.