आकाश एव यस्यायतनं श्रोत्रं लोको मनोज्योतिर्यो वै तं पुरुषं विद्यात्सर्वस्यात्मनः परायणं स वै वेदिता स्यात् ।याज्ञवल्क्य वेद वा अहं तं पुरुषं सर्वस्यात्मनः परायणं यमात्थ य एवायं श्रौत्रः प्रातिश्रुत्कः पुरुषः स एष वदैव शाकल्य तस्य का देवतेति दिश इति होवाच ॥ १३ ॥
In plain words
Space is his home, the ear his world, the mind his light. Know him and you have reached the final resting place of every self there is. I know him, Yajnavalkya says — the one who lives in hearing itself, in the moment an echo answers a sound. That's him, Shakalya, right here. Ask on: what god does he answer to? The four directions, he says.
Close to the Sanskrit
'Space alone is his abode', the ear his world, the mind his light — whoever should know that person as the final resort of the self of all, he would indeed be a knower. Yājñavalkya: I know that person, the final resort of the self of all, of whom you speak — the one who is this auditory, echo-natured person. He is this very one, Śākalya; speak on! Of him, what is the deity? — 'The directions', he said.