Verse 13

¹³Instructed so by the Bhagavan, king, Uddhava, great among the Lord's own, bowed low and spoke to the Unfallen, wanting to know what is real. ¹⁴Lord of yoga, laying-out of yoga, self of yoga, source of yoga: the letting go whose mark is renunciation has been spoken to me, for my highest good. ¹⁵Abundant one, this letting go of desires is hard for men whose self is in the objects of sense, and harder still for those not devoted to you, self of all. That is what I think. ¹⁶I am a fool. I have gone deep into I and mine, into this thing your maya has built and everything that hangs on it. Bhagavan, teach your servant, so that I may bring about the truth you have set out so plainly.

¹⁷Lord, I do not see anyone but you, the real, who sees by his own light and is the self, who could speak of yourself, not even among the wise. All these who wear bodies, Brahma and the rest, have their understanding bewildered by your maya and take the outward thing for the thing itself. ¹⁸So, worn out in mind and scorched all round by wrong, I come for refuge to you, faultless, without end or shore, all-knowing, the Lord, whose seat in Vaikuntha is never dulled: Narayana, the friend of man.