None of the errors that arise from illusion shall cloud your mind any more. Know me to be the Absolute, without beginning, birthless, devoid of the three modes of material nature and yet a mine of all (transcendent divine) virtues.

Listen, crow; my devotees are ever dear to me; realizing this, cherish steadfast devotion to my feet in thought and word and deed.

Now listen to my words, most simple and true and easily intelligible, which have also been echoed by the Vedas and other scriptures. I declare to you my own doctrine; listen to it and imprint it on your mind and abjuring everything else, worship only me.

The world with all its varieties of life, both moving and unmoved, is a creation of my illusion. All are dear to me, for all are my creation; but man is the creature I delight in most.

Of men, the Brahmans, and of the Brahmans, those well-versed in the Vedas; of these, those who follow the course of conduct prescribed in the Vedas; of these again, celibates are my favourites, and yet more the wise; of the wise too I love best the spiritually wise,

but dearer to me than these is my own servant (devotee), who looks to me for refuge and has no other hope. Again and again I declare to you the doctrine that none is so dear to me as my servant.

One without devotion, be he the Creator himself, is no dearer to me than any other creature, but the humblest creature that breathes, if he be possessed of devotion, is dear to me as my own life: such is my doctrine.