Verse 10

¹⁰This was made to shine out long ago by the Bhagavan, out of pity, for Brahma, who sat on the lotus at his navel and was afraid of becoming. ¹¹At its beginning, in its middle and at its end it is joined with accounts of detachment; and the mass of the tellings of Hari's play gladdens the good and the gods with its nectar. ¹²It is the essence of all the Vedanta, marked by the oneness of Brahman and the self; the thing without a second, resting in that, with aloneness for its one purpose. ¹³Whoever gives away the Bhagavata on the full-moon day of Prausthapada, with a golden lion seat, goes the highest way.