O refuge of all! O thou that never fallest off! O Vishnu, be thou propitious! Come thou within the ken of us who are thy devotees". Hearing this invocation of Brahmā, and then the deities, bowing down, said,—"Be propitious! Come thou within the range of our vision? O thou that art in every thing! O thou that never fallest off! O support of the Universe! we bow unto that Prime State which even the reverend Brahmā doth not know".

In plain words: Brahma begs Vishnu, the refuge of all, to be kind and show himself to his devotees. The gods then bow too. They ask Vishnu to appear and praise him as present in everything, a state even Brahma cannot fully know.