Verse 1

¹Bhagavan said: Yoga does not hold me, nor enumeration, nor dharma, nor the study of one's own text, nor austerity, nor giving up, nor sacrifice and works for the common good, nor the fee paid to the priests; ²nor vows, nor sacrifice, nor the metres, nor the fords, nor the observances and the restraints. Nothing takes hold of me as the company of the true does, which takes away every clinging. ³For by the company of the true the sons of Diti, the night-walkers, beasts, birds, gandharvas and apsarases, snakes, the perfected, the caranas and the guhyakas, ⁴the vidyadharas, and among men merchants and servants and women and those born lowest, whose natures are passion and darkness, in each age, sinless one,