Karmanirnaya 11_38

11_38

From the word “uta” (“also”), even for the knowers singing [praise] is appropriate according to their own stage of life; because of the scripture: “Then, O Viṣṇu, even by the wise one the hymn is to be offered, and the sacrifice is to be performed by the one possessing oblations.”
What is to be praised? The “bold one,” the courageous Supreme Brahman named Vāsudeva. “Not to the city,” [meaning] do not worship the body. In the Bhāgavata Purāṇa [it is said]: “Rising to greet, humility, and salutation, O slender-waisted one, are properly enjoined reciprocally among the wise towards the Supreme Person residing in the cave [of the heart] with the mind, not indeed towards the one who identifies with the body.”