Verse 1

¹Now we ask you about this matter, you who know the most of us: in the settled conclusions of all the systems, you, who are the Lord's own, are the one who knows what is real. ²In the service of the lord of Sri and of him alone, those who follow the systems set out his limbs, his lesser limbs, his weapons and his ornaments. In what way do they do it, and by what things? ³Tell us that, good come to you, the yoga of ritual action, for we want to know it; by skill in that action a man who must die may go to what does not die. ⁴Having bowed to the teachers, I shall speak also of the shows of Visnu's power, those told by the Veda and the systems, and by the teachers beginning with the lotus-born.