It is fitting. What is fitting? That at the proclamation of Your praise, at the telling and the hearing of Your greatness, O Hṛṣīkeśa, the world rejoices, comes to great joy: that is fitting. Or else 'fitting' is a qualification of the object: the Blessed Lord is a fitting object of joy and the rest, since He is the Lord, the Self of all, the friend of all beings; and likewise the world is drawn into love toward Him as toward a fitting object. Further, the rākṣasas, frightened, filled with fear, flee to the quarters, and that too is fitting, an object fit for it; and all the hosts of perfected ones, Kapila and the rest, bow, make salutation, and that too is fitting. He shows the reason for the Blessed Lord's being a fitting object of joy and the rest.

Arjuna spoke. It is fitting, it is right, that this whole world, the gods, gandharvas, perfected ones, yakshas, vidyadharas, kinnaras, kimpurushas, and the rest, that has come wishing to see the battle, beholding, by your grace, you the Lord of all, all rejoices and is gladdened at your proclamation. And that, beholding you, the rakshasas, afraid, flee to all the quarters, and all the hosts of the perfected, the favourable hosts of the perfected and the rest, make salutation, all of this is fitting. This is the connection with the foregoing. The Lord establishes that very fittingness.

What is about to be said is indeed apt in its place; that is the sense. He is 'Hrishikesha' because, as the inner controller of fire, the moon and the rest, He gladdens the world and so on; and the hairs (kesha) are the rays, since they are fixed by Him, the proof being given at 'whose eyes are the moon and the sun' (11.19). He is also 'Hrishikesha' from being the Lord (isha) of the senses (hrishika), and that lordship over them in particular is well known in 'He who abides in the breath' (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3.7.16) and the like, and from such usage as 'My senses do not fall into the wrong path'. The other meaning is established in the Moksha-dharma, 'the sun and the moon, ever, with My hairs that are called rays, awakening and establishing, and the world arises distinctly; from the awakening and the establishing, and from the arising of the world's gladness, by these works done by fire and the moon, O joy of the Pandus, He is Hrishikesha, the great Lord, the boon-giver, the maker of the worlds'.