न वाचं विजिज्ञासीत वक्तारं विद्यान्न गन्धं विजिज्ञासीत घ्रातारं विद्यान्न रूपं विजिज्ञासीत रूपविद्यं विद्यान्न शब्दं विजिज्ञासीत श्रोतारं विद्यान्नान्नरसं विजिज्ञासीतान्नरसविज्ञातारं विद्यान्न कर्म विजिज्ञासीत कर्तारं विद्यान्न सुखदुःखे विजिज्ञासीत सुखदुःखयोर्विज्ञातारं विद्यान्नानन्दं न रतिं न प्रजातिं विजिज्ञासीतानन्दस्य रतेः प्रजातेर्विज्ञातारं विद्यान्नेत्यां विजिज्ञासीतैतारं विद्यात् ।न मनो विजिज्ञासीत मन्तारं विद्यात् ।ता वा एता दशैव भूतमात्रा अधिप्रज्ञं दश प्रज्ञामात्रा अधिभूतं यद्धि भूतमात्रा न स्युर्न प्रज्ञामात्राः स्युर्यद्वा प्रज्ञामात्रा न स्युर्न भूतमात्राः स्युः ॥ ८ ॥
In plain words
Let a man not seek to know speech; let him know the speaker. Let him not seek to know odour; let him know the smeller. Let him not seek to know form; let him know the seer of form. Let him not seek to know sound; let him know the hearer. Let him not seek to know the savour of food; let him know the knower of the savour of food. Let him not seek to know action; let him know the doer. Let him not seek to know pleasure and pain; let him know the knower of pleasure and pain. Let him not seek to know delight or love or begetting; let him know the knower of delight, love and begetting. Let him not seek to know movement; let him know the mover. Let him not seek to know the mind; let him know the thinker. These are the ten elements of being with respect to wisdom, and the ten elements of wisdom with respect to being. For if there were no elements of being, there would be no elements of wisdom; and if there were no elements of wisdom, there would be no elements of being.