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Then That goal should be sought for, whither having gone none returns again. I seek refuge in that Primeval Purusha Whence streamed forth the ancient activity or energy.

one should then seek that state from which those who reach it never return, thinking: I take refuge in that primal Person from whom this ancient stream of activity has flowed forth.

After the cutting comes the search. One is to seek the state from which there is no return to the round of birth and death. Krishna gives the seeker words of surrender to the primal Person (puruṣa), the source from whom the ancient flow of activity streamed out. Some readers see this as devotion to a personal Lord, others as turning toward the ground of all being; both hear in it a turn from the branches to the root. Detachment is thus completed by an orientation toward what lies beyond the tree.