तौ ह द्वात्रिंशतं वर्षाणि ब्रह्मचर्यमूषतुस्तौ ह प्रजापतिरुवाच किमिच्छन्तावास्तमिति तौ होचतुर्य आत्मापहतपाप्मा विजरो विमृत्युर्विशोको विजिघत्सोऽपिपासः सत्यकामः सत्यसंकल्पः सोऽन्वेष्टव्यः स विजिज्ञासितव्यः स सर्वांश्च लोकानाप्नोति सर्वांश्च कामान्यस्तमात्मानमनुविद्य विजानातीति भगवतो वचो वेदयन्ते तमिच्छन्ताववास्तमिति ॥ ८.७.३ ॥
In plain words
They lived the life of students of sacred knowledge for thirty-two years. Then Prajāpati said to them, "Desiring what have you lived here?" They said, "'The Self, whose evil is struck away, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, without hunger and without thirst, whose desire is true and whose resolve is true — that is to be sought out, that is to be understood. He who has found that Self and understands it wins all worlds and all desires' — men report these as thy words, sir. Desiring him we have lived here."