They lived on vegetables, fruits and roots and meditated on Brahma (the Absolute), who is truth, consciousness and bliss combined. Again, they started undergoing penance for the sake of Ýr¶ Hari, giving up roots and fruits for water alone, Their heart ever clamoured, “Let us see with our eyes that supreme Lord who is without attributes, without parts and without beginning or end, who is contemplated upon by the exponents of the highest reality, whom the Vedas describe in negative terms such as ‘Not this, not this’, who is bliss itself, unconditioned and without comparison, and from a particle of whose being emanate a number of Ýambhus, ViraÛcis and Viƒ˜us.” Even such a Lord is subordinate to the will of His devotees and assumes for their sake a form suitable for sport. If the above utterance of the Vedas is true, our desire will be surely accomplished. (1—4)