Verse 18

¹⁰Let him hold his mind on the bare element in me, whose self is the fine matter of the elements. Serving me as that bare element, he gains the becoming small. ¹¹Setting his mind, as it stands, on me, the highest, whose self is the great principle, he gains the becoming great, and gains it in the elements one by one. ¹²Steeping his thought in me as made of the finest particles of the elements, the yogin, reaching the fineness that time comes down to, would gain lightness. ¹³Holding his whole mind on me in the I-making that comes of change, his mind on me, he gains reaching: he becomes the self of all the senses. ¹⁴He who holds his mind on me in the great principle, the thread, as the self, finds from me, whose birth is out of the unmanifest, the unchecked will that belongs to the highest station.

¹⁵Let him hold his thought on Visnu, ruler over the three, whose body is time. He gains lordship, which is the setting in motion of the field and the knower of the field. ¹⁶Setting his mind on me as Narayana, called the fourth, spoken by the word Bhagavan, the yogin, taking on my own nature, would come to mastery. ¹⁷Holding his cleared mind on me as Brahman beyond the strands, he gains the highest gladness, in which wanting comes to its end. ¹⁸Holding his thought on me, the pure, made of dharma, the lord of the White Island, a man goes to that whiteness and is free of the six waves.