in the heart of the creature. A man who has no more desires
and no more griefs, sees the majesty of the Self by the grace
of the creator.

"Though sitting still, he walks far; though lying down, he
goes everywhere. Who save myself is able to know that God,
who rejoices, and rejoices not?

"That Self cannot be gained by the Veda; nor by the
understanding, nor by much learning. He whom the Self
chooses, by him alone the Self can be gained.

"The Self chooses him as his own. But he who has not first
turned away from his wickedness, who is not calm and subdued,
or whose mind is not at rest, he can never obtain the Self,
even by knowledge.

"No mortal lives by the breath that goes up and by the breath
that goes down. We live by another, in whom both repose.

"Well then, I shall tell thee this mystery, the eternal word
(Brahman), and what happens to the _Self_, after reaching
death.

"Some are born again, as living beings, others enter into
stocks and stones, according to their work, and according to
their knowledge.

"But he, the Highest Person, who wakes in us while we are
asleep, shaping one lovely sight after another, he indeed is
called the Light, he is called Brahman, he alone is called
the Immortal. All worlds are founded on it, and no one goes
beyond. _This is that._

"As the one fire, after it has entered the world, though one,
becomes different according to what it burns, thus the One
Self within all things, becomes different, according to
whatever it enters, but it exists also apart.

"As the sun, the eye of the world, is not contaminated by the
external impurities seen by the eye, thus the One Self within
all things is never contaminated by the sufferings of the
world, being himself apart.

"There is one eternal thinker, thinking non-eternal thoughts;
he, though one, fulfils the desires of many. The wise who
perceive Him within their Self, to them belongs eternal life,
eternal peace.[341]

"Whatever there is, the whole world, when gone forth (from
Brahman), trembles in his breath. That Brahman is a great
terror, like a drawn sword. Those who know it, become
immortal.

"He (Brahman) cannot be reached by speech, by mind, or by the
eye. He cannot be apprehended, except by him who says, _He
is._

"When all desires th