1. Now, I bow to all who are present in the audience. Liberation is easily attained here for the audience where the "Lord of the World" (Jagadisha) is himself waiting with affection.
2. The Lord said to Narada (a great devotee of Narayana, Lord Vishnu) "My place is not in heaven (Vaikuntha, the abode of Vishnu), nor in the hearts of the yogis. I dwell where my devotees are singing my praises."
3. Because of this, the gathering of devotees is superior. The Lord says, "My abode is where devotees sing and chant the name of God aloud, with joyful voices."
4. The abode of God is where devotees sing of God's glory with great love, where the narration of the stories of God are told, where music is used to praise him, and where the discourses and listening to the knowledge contained in the Vedas goes on continuously.
5. Where the qualities of God are expounded upon and many commentaries are given, and where discussions about the various aspects of the science of Self-Knowledge are taking place, this is the abode of God.
6. God resides where many doubts are cleared and many suspicions are removed to satisfaction, and where the mind becomes fixed in the object of meditation through the eloquent play of words that are being spoken.
7. In such gatherings, devotees are full of love and devotion, they are good natured, deeply thoughtful, virtuous in nature (sattvic; inclined towards spirituality), and there are many singers singing delightful songs full of devotional feeling.
8. The devotees are dutiful, well behaved, generous, and on the right path. They are pious, virtuous, pure in their thoughts, and kind in their deeds.
9. There are yogis who are free of anger, ascetics who are disciplined in austerities, and some who are indifferent and desireless, who reside in the forest.
10. Some are renunciates (sanyasins) with matted hair belonging to the Nath sect, some are wearing the marks of the worshippers of Vishnu (vaishnavas), some are young celibates, and some are great "Masters of Yoga" (Yogeshwaras).
11. There are some who are reciting mantras and performing austerities while residing in holy places, and some are great yogis who have controlled their minds to such an extent that they behave like common people while remaining aloof in a crowd.
12. Some are accomplished (siddhas), some holy men (sadhus), and some are aspirants (sadhakas). Some are proficient in the use of many mantras, and some are loyal worshippers who are full of good qualities.
13. There are saints, virtuous men, and scholars. There are some who are knowledgeable of vedic literature and spiritual science. There are many great men who are highly intelligent knowers of everything who are fully content, and whose actions are flawlessly pure.
14. There are many yogis, many who are experts in scholastic knowledge, and there are great sages (rishis). There are shrewd and logical great poets, and there are those who have conquered the mind and are abiding in silence and nakedness.
15. There are knowers of Brahman and the Self who understand the nature of Reality and the nature of the body. There are students of yogic science, and those who are accomplished in yogic austerities who are not involved in worldly life at all.
16. There are scholars and narrators of the ancient mythological stories (Puranas), learned priests who have studied and recite the Vedas, and there are those who are knowledgeable in the ancient rituals in the Yajur Veda (a part of the Vedas that contains instructions on various rituals).
17. There are many good natured and versatile listeners, there are some who perform sacred fire rituals, there are healers and medicine men, and some who are very charitable to others.
18. There are some who have the knowledge of all the three times (past, present and future), and there are some who have heard a great deal of knowledge yet have no pride or expectations.
19. There are those who are full of peace, forgiveness, compassion, and virtue. There are those full of the sattva quality whose mind is clear, being full with Knowledge (Jnana).
20. Such are the leaders of the gathering where there is discrimination between the permanent and impermanent. Their greatness is divine. How can it be described?
21. Where people are gathering to listen to discourse about "Supreme Meaning" (Paramartha; Supreme Truth), the way is made easy and effortless.
22. In this gathering is found people with the best qualities. They are by nature peaceful, calm, pleasing, and always happy and fresh.
23. There are many people who are endowed with knowledge of various arts, and who have special good qualities of God. They are adored wherever they gather together.
24. There are some who are engaged in worldly life, and there are those who have turned their back to the world. There are some who are leading a family life, and those who are solely on the path of spirituality and have retired from family life to live as hermits and ascetics.
25. They are old and young, and men and women, and all are continuously meditating upon the Lord (Vishnu; the Christ Consciousness) within.
26. Like this are the people of God. To them I give my regards. Because of them, we get great satisfaction.
27. I bow to those who comprise such a gathering where the praises of the beloved Lord are always going on.
28. Where images of the Lord are present, satisfaction is obtained. This is confirmed in many texts given to us by great saints.
29. In the present Kali Yuga (according to Hindu cosmology, the current age) it is through the singing of the praises of God (kirtan), and in hearing the narration of the stories of God in gatherings, that many doubts are dispelled and completely eliminated.