O chastiser of foes, incapable of meting out retribution,* unmanifest itself, and non-existent, how can virtue, even if we grant its existence, find out the person that should be slain? *"In consequence,' remarks Ramanuja, 'of their being devoid of consciousness.
अदृष्टप्रतिकारेण अव्यक्तेनासता सता। कथं शक्यं परं प्राप्तुं धर्मेणारिविकर्षण॥