kenedaṃ kāritaṃ viṣṇo na vidāmo'lpamedhasaḥ | tadā prahasya bhagavānbrahmaṇā saha taiḥ suraiḥ || 58 || samādhimagamansarve'pyekāgramanasastadā | tattvajñānena nirhṛtya kāmakrodādikāndvijāḥ || 59 || tadātmani sthitaṃ liṃgamapaśyanvi budhādayaḥ | viṣṇuṃ puraskṛtya tadā tuṣṭuvuḥ paramārthataḥ || 60 || 
“By whom has this been caused? We do not know as we are deficient in intelligence.” Then Viṣṇu laughed at Brahmā and all those (Suras). All of them then began to meditate with great concentration of their minds. O Brāhmaṇas, that dispelled base emotions such as lust and anger as well as other feelings by means of the knowledge of Reality. Then Devas and others saw the Liṅga present in their own Ātman (Soul). Keeping Viṣṇu at their head, they eulogized the Lord for the attainment of the ultimate truth: 