Verse 34

³⁴You are the best of those who know Brahman, and so you should tell us where the supreme Self stands, Brahman, who goes by the name Narayana. ³⁵It is the cause of the world's standing, rising and dissolving, and has no cause itself. It is what is there in dreaming, in waking and in deep sleep, and outside them too. By it body, senses, breath and heart are made alive and go about. Know that to be the highest, lord of men. ³⁶The mind does not get into this, nor speech, nor the eye, nor the understanding, nor breath and the senses, any more than its own sparks get into the fire. Even the word, by denying what points to it, tells of a thing rooted in the self; and without that, no denial would hold.

³⁷Clarity, passion and darkness make three, and at the start it is one. They call it the thread, the great principle, I-making, the living being. In its forms of knowing and doing, of object and of fruit, it is a wide power. It is Brahman alone that shines out as what is and what is not, and as what lies beyond the two. ³⁸The self was never born and it will not die; it does not grow and it does not waste away. It is what knows the turnings of the things that turn. Everywhere and always it is nothing but awareness that does not fall away, as breath is, which the strength of the senses makes out to be many. ³⁹Breath runs after the living being here and there, in eggs, in wombs, in trees, in things not settled. When the crowd of the senses has sunk down and the I lies fast asleep, there is the one who stands unmoved, apart from the store of the mind; and afterwards we remember that.

⁴⁰When by a great devotion, in longing for the feet of the lotus-navelled one, a man blows away the stains of thought that are born of the strands and of works, then in that cleared thought the truth of the self is taken hold of directly, as the sun's light is by clean eyes.