Heaven as fire is His head; sun and moon are His eyes; four quarters or directions are His ears; the Vedas that are expressed are His speech; the air is His breath; the universe is His mind; the earth has come from His feet. He is indeed the inner Self of all beings.

The Purush alone is all this universe - the sacrificial works (Karma) and knowledge (tapas). All this is Brahman, the highest and the immortal. O good looking youth! He who knows this as seated in the cavity of the heart, he unties the knot of ignorance even here.

He, in whom the heaven, the earth and the interspace are centered, together with the mind and all life breaths (pran) - know him alone as the one Self of all, and desist from all other talks. This is the man's bridge to the shore of Immoratility (across the ocean of life).

The stainless, indivisible Brahman, the pure - the light of all lights, is in the innermost sheath of the golden hue - the highest. That is what the knowers of the Atman know.

When the sages have attained the Atman, they become satisfied with their knowledge, their purpose is fulfilled, they become free from desire and they gain tranquility. Having attained the all pervading Atman everywhere, the wise, thereafter devoted to the Self, enter into everything.

Knowing well - the Pran, is illuminating all the beings, the wise man stops all his blabberings. Sporting in Self, delighted in Self and ever engaged in enjoined activites, this man is the best of those who know the Brahman.

The Self is attained through veracity, concentration, wisdom and continence; cultivate all of them constantly. When impurities thus dwindle, the ascetic beholds Him - stainless, resplendent - within his very body.

When the seer realises the self-effulgent supreme being - ruler, maker and source of the creator even - then that wise one, shaking off all deeds of merits and demerits, become stainless and attains the supreme state of equipoise.

When He is seen both in the higher and the lower, the knots of seeker's heart becomes untied; all doubts are dispelled; and all his karmas are consumed.

A disciple (shishya) should reach the Master in a spirit of humble adoration and complete surrender, with a passionate urge to know and with an indomitable will to suffer any amount of difficulties in living the life of retirement and privations.