Verse 1

¹You are Brahman, the highest, here before us, without beginning or end, with nothing covering you: the guarding of all that is, and its standing, its passing away and its coming to be. ²Among beings high and low you are hard to know for those who have not made themselves ready. The brahmins, Bhagavan, serve you as you truly are. ³In which beings do the highest sages serve you with devotion, and so come to their full accomplishment? Tell me that. ⁴You move about hidden, the self of beings, maker of beings. Beings do not see you, though you are seeing them; they are bewildered by you. ⁵Whatever showings of power there are on the earth, in the sky, in the waters below, in the quarters, you of great power: tell them to me, since they are yours and shown by you. I bow to your lotus feet, whose feet are the holy fords.