स होवाच न वा अरे पत्युः कामायपतिः प्रियो भवत्यात्मनस्तु कामाय पतिःभवन्त्यात्मनस्तु कामाय भूतानि प्रियाणिभवन्ति ।न वा अरे सर्वस्य कामाय सर्वंप्रियं भवत्यात्मनस्तु कामाय सर्वं प्रियंभवति ।आत्मा वा अरे द्रष्टव्यः श्रोत-व्यो मन्तव्यो निदिध्यासितव्यो मैत्रेय्या-त्मनो वा अरे दर्शनेन श्रवणेन मत्या वि-ज्ञानेनेदं सर्वं विदितम् ॥ ५ ॥
In plain words
Yājñavalkya began: "It is not for the husband's own sake that a husband is dear — it is for the sake of the Self. That is why anything at all becomes dear to us: not for its own sake, but for the Self's. It is not even for the sake of everything that everything is dear — it is, again, for the Self's sake alone. So the Self, Maitreyī, is what must be seen, heard, thought about, meditated on. See it, hear about it, think it through, understand it — and everything else falls into place, known."
Close to the Sanskrit
He said: "Not, O [Maitreyī], for the husband's own sake is the husband dear; rather, for the Self's sake do husbands become dear; for the Self's sake, beings become dear. Not, O [Maitreyī], for the sake of everything is everything dear; rather, for the Self's sake everything is dear. The Self, O [Maitreyī], is to be seen, to be heard, to be reflected upon, to be meditated upon. Through the seeing, hearing, thinking, and understanding of the Self, O Maitreyī, all this is known."