Verse 18

¹³And he has come down, they say, in the line of the Satvatas, making the happiness of the best of the immortals who guard his bounds; and the Lord stays in Vraja spreading his fame, which the gods sing as auspicious without end. ¹⁴Him then I shall surely see today: the goal of the great, the teacher, the beloved of the three worlds, a great festival for the eye, wearing a form that is the place Sri wants. My dawns have been good ones. ¹⁵Then I shall surely get down from the chariot at once and bow, for my own gaining, to the feet of the two lords, the chief Persons, feet held in thought even by yogins; and to their friends, the dwellers in the wood.

¹⁶And when I have fallen at the root of his feet, will the mighty one set his own lotus hand on my head, the hand that gives freedom from fear to men shaken by the rush of the snake of time who are looking for shelter, ¹⁷the hand on which Kausika laid his worship, and Bali too, and got the rule of the three worlds; or which at their play took away the weariness of the women of Vraja by its touch, smelling of the white lotus? ¹⁸The Unfallen will not take me for an enemy, sent though I am as Kamsa's messenger; he sees the whole, and as the knower of the field he looks with a clean eye on what the mind is at, inside and out.