Verse 27

²⁷Having taken their leave of the Dasarha, of Dhrtarastra and of Yudhisthira, royal sage, the sages set their minds on going to their own hermitages. ²⁸Seeing that, Vasudeva of great renown went up to them, bowed, took hold of their feet, and, well held in, spoke this. ²⁹Salutation to you, who are all the gods. Sages, be pleased to hear me. Let it be told us how the undoing of work may come about by work. ³⁰This is no great wonder, brahmins: that Vasudeva, out of a wish to know, takes Krsna for a child and asks us what is good for his own self. ³¹For with mortals nearness is a cause of paying no regard: as a man who lives beside the Ganga leaves her water and goes to other water to be made clean.

³²He whose awareness is never harmed by time through this world's dissolving and rising and the rest, nor of itself, nor from another, nor from a strand, nor from anything whatever: ³³him, the Lord without a second, whose awareness the currents of the strands, of ripening work and of affliction do not strike, hidden by his own powers, breath and the rest, another man would take as he takes the sun for what cloud and snow and eclipse make of it.