tac-chiṣya-rūpeṇa ca mat-priyaṁ taṁ

saṁśrāvya śāpaṁ nilayāndha-kūpāt

śrī-vāsudevena vikṛṣya nītaḥ

prāyopaveśāya matiṁ dyu-nadyām

When I heard of that curse, I took it as most welcome. Śrī Vāsudeva, in the form of a brāhmaṇa’s disciple, was dragging me out of the blind well of family life and guiding me to choose to fast till death on the shore of the celestial Gaṅgā.