सा होवाच मैत्रेयी येनाहं नामृता स्यां किमहं तेन कुर्यां यदेव भगवान्वेद तदेव मे ब्रूहीति ॥ ४ ॥
In plain words
Maitreyī said: 'What good is anything to me if it can't make me immortal? Just tell me what you actually know.'
Close to the Sanskrit
She, Maitreyī, said: 'What should I do with that by which I would not become immortal? Whatever you, venerable one, know — tell me just that.'