Verse 40

³⁵The Vedas have Brahman, the self, for their matter; these here have the three sections for their matter. The sages speak in a hidden way, and what is hidden is dear to me too. ³⁶The Brahman that is sound is very hard to make out. It is made of breath and the senses and the mind, without end or far shore, deep, hard to plunge into, like the sea. ³⁷It is swelled out by me, the fullness, by Brahman whose power has no end; and in beings it shows itself as sound, as the thread shows in the lotus stalk. ³⁸As the spider casts the thread out of its heart and through its mouth, so out of space comes breath carrying sound, together with the mind whose form is touch —

³⁹made of metres, made of what does not die, the master sends out the road of a thousand paths, adorned from Om with consonants shown forth, with vowels, with sibilants and semivowels, ⁴⁰spread wide in speech of many kinds, with metres each four syllables longer than the last, endless and without a far shore, and great. He sends it out, and he himself draws it back in.