Verse 141

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। ॥ १४३ ॥

In plain words

The one by which everything else is known — by what could you ever know that one? So say the Upaniṣads: the Self, in the end, can only be reached by the Self.

Close to the Sanskrit

That by which [everything] is known — by what, indeed, could one know that? Thus is the statement of the Upaniṣads: the Self, therefore, is bound [only] by the Self.