Verse 9

⁹Having entered inside, fire takes on the qualities the wood gives it: going out and catching, being small or great, being of many kinds. Just so the higher one takes on the qualities of the body. ¹⁰This body, put together by the strands, belongs to the Person; it is his round of birth and it is what binds him. For a man who is the self, it is cut through by knowing. ¹¹So by the wish to know let him come to the self, which stands in the self, alone and highest, and put away step by step the thought that this is a solid thing. ¹²The teacher is the lower firestick and the pupil the upper. The teaching is the rubbing of the two, and the joint they make, which is knowledge, brings happiness.

¹³That skilled understanding, made wholly clean, shakes off the maya that the strands have brought forth; and having burned the strands, of which all this is made, it grows quiet of itself, like a fire with no fuel.