Verse 10

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In plain words

You drank poison as if it were milk — what of it? You ate fire as if it were parched grain — what of it? You roamed the sky like a bird — what of it, if you never once came face to face with your own Ātma?

Close to the Sanskrit

Whether poison was drunk like milk — from that, what? Whether fire was eaten like parched grain — from that, what? Passage through the sky was attained like a bird's — from that, what? — for one by whom his own Ātma was not at all directly realized.