Verse 6

¹Revered one, what you have said is not rightly taken in by us. The wise understand it; we do not, for our works have bewildered us. ²Know Puranjana for the Person, since he makes plain a city of his own: one with a single foot, or two, or three, or four, or many feet, or none at all. ³The one called Unknown is that Person's friend and lord. He is not known by men, not by names, nor by acts, nor by qualities. ⁴When the Person, wanting to take hold of nature's strands entire, came on a form with nine gates and two hands and two feet, he thought it good. ⁵Know the woman for the understanding, whose work it is to make mine and I. Standing on her, the Person in this body tastes the strands through the senses.

⁶The men who were his friends are the crowd of the senses, which do the knowing and the acting; the women are their workings; and the breath with its five workings is the serpent.