All here is charming: e'en the very trees
O Narada, my fancy take,
And Kappa's words that never fail to please
A grateful echo in my heart awake.

After these words he said: "Kappa by way of pleasing me gave me to drink broth made of millet and wild rice mixed with leaves sprinkled with water, and without salt and spices, and therewith was my bodily sickness stayed and I was healed."

Narada, hearing this, repeated the third stanza:

Thou that but now the purest rice didst eat
Boiled with a dainty flavouring of meat,
How canst thou relish such insipid fare
And millet and wild rice with hermits share?

[145] On hearing this Kesava uttered the fourth stanza:

The food may coarse or dainty prove,
May scanty be or much abound,
Yet if the meal is blest with love,
Love the best sauce by far is found.

Narada on hearing his words returned to the king and told him, "Kesava says thus and thus."

The Master, having ended his lesson, identified the Birth: "At that time the king was Ananda, Narada was Sariputta, Kesava was Bakabrahma, Kappa was myself."