"This self cannot be grasped,"

"Not by speech, not by the mind,"

"Then, after Naciketas received this body of knowledge,"

"What cannot be seen, what cannot be grasped,"

"As the rivers flow on and enter into the ocean"

"Knowledge and ignorance—"

"As a spider spins out threads, then draws them into itself;"

"Two birds, companions and friends,"

"Not by sight, not by speech, nor by any other sense;"

"This whole world is to be dwelt in by the Lord,"