Gopalacampu 1.18.32

1.18.32

[30] atra cāyam asman-milanam aṅgīkurvann eva saṅginaḥ prasaṅgāntarāya prasthāpitavān | baladevaś ca nādya vanam āgatavān iti cāsthīyate | tasmād atisvacchatara-cetasam amuṃ bhavāṃs tāvan nibhṛtatayā nibhṛtam avyagratayā cābhyagraṃ gatvā daṇḍavan natvā prasādayitum arhati | yataḥ,
svayam aparādhyati kurute prabhum abhi tan-mārjane sahāyaṃ yaḥ |
tasyedaṃ para-śakter darśanam atha naiva dainyasya || [āryā]
yasmin svayam aparādhī namati rahas taṃ sahāya-nirviṇṇaḥ |
kṛpayati sā jana-mātraṃ dainyāvasthā mahājanaṃ kim uta? || [gīti]

"And here, consenting indeed to our meeting, he has sent away his companions for another occasion. And it is certain that Baladeva has not come to the forest today. Therefore, going secretly with total secrecy and without haste to him whose mind is exceedingly clear, you ought to conciliate him, bowing down like a rod. For: / He who himself commits an offense and looks to a companion towards his master to wipe it away / displays the power of another, not humility at all. / When an offender himself bows down to him in secret, despairing of any companion, / that state of humility awakens pity even in an ordinary person, what to speak of a great soul?"