Verse 15

¹⁵Kesava, when you taught that yoga to Sanaka and the others, in what form did you teach it? That is the form I want to know. ¹⁶Bhagavan said: The sons born of the mind of the Golden Womb, Sanaka and the rest, asked their father about the subtle going of yoga, which turns to one thing only. ¹⁷Master, the mind goes into the strands and the strands go into the mind. How is the one to be given up for the other by a man who wants release and wants to cross over? ¹⁸Bhagavan said: Asked in this way, the great god, the self-born, the maker of beings, though he thought hard, could not come at the seed of the question, for his mind was on works.

¹⁹That god thought of me, wanting to cross to the far side of the question; and I came then into his presence in the form of a swan. ²⁰Seeing me, they came up and bowed at my feet, and putting Brahma in front of them they asked: Who are you? ²¹Uddhava, hear from me what I said to them then, when the sages, who wanted to know what is real, had asked me that.