Verse 27

²²Brahmins, if there is no manyness in the thing that the self is, how can a question like yours hold together? And what would it rest on for me, who am to answer it? ²³In beings made of the five, which are the same in what they really are, this question of yours, who are you, is a starting up of words and comes to nothing. ²⁴What is taken hold of by the mind, by speech, by sight, and by the other senses too, is I alone, and nothing other than me. Know this straight off. ²⁵The mind goes into the strands and the strands into the mind, children. Both, the strands and the mind, are the body of the living one, whose self is I.

²⁶The mind that has gone into the strands by serving them again and again, and the strands that arise out of the mind: let one who stands in my form give up both. ²⁷Waking, dream and deep sleep are workings of the understanding and come from the strands. The living one is other than these, and is settled as the one who watches.