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In plain words
The disciple may ask: 'Bhagavan, Ātman is said to have neither inside nor outside, yet to embrace both outer and inner; it is unborn, whole, and a seamless mass of Prajñāna. Like a solid block of salt, it has no division of form and one taste throughout, like Ākāśa. Then what is everything we see and hear? What are the goal, the means, and the seeker, familiar from Śruti, Smṛti, and ordinary life, about which hundreds of disputants disagree?'
Close to the Sanskrit
If he should say: 'Bhagavan, if Ātman is “without interior and without exterior,” “unborn, with both exterior and interior,” “whole,” and “a mass of Prajñāna alone”; if it is like a solid mass of salt, free from every difference of form and of one taste like Ākāśa—then what is all this that is seen or heard? What are the goal, the means, and the seeker, known in Śruti, Smṛti, and the world, over which hundreds of disputants disagree?'