Understand "I am that inner self which impels, the consciousness, etc., but is itself unchanging, like the lodestone. (19).

Understand "I am He by whose proximity, the body, senses, mind, and life-forces, though motionless, vet seem like the self that is not so. (20).

'My mind had gone elsewhere, but has now been steadied.' Understand "I am He who knows the above activity of the mind." (21).

Understand "I am He who is the direct witness, himself changeless, of waking, dream and sleep, and of the presence and absence of objects, and of all phases of consciousness. (22).

As it is admitted that the light revealing (the presence of) a pot is other than the pot, so am I of the nature of knowledge, the dweller in the body that reveals the body. (23).

Understand "I am the witness that is the dearest of all, for whose sake alone, sons, wealth and other objects are dear." (24).

Understand "I am the witness who, being himself the object of highest love, feels 'let me never cease to be, but let me ever exist.'" (25).

The consciousness that is the witness is said to be the meaning of the word "thou." The

self is the witness and the knower, because it is devoid of change. (26).

By the word "thou" is denoted that which is different from the body, senses, mind, life-forces, and ego, and is entirely devoid of the six states [**] or other change. (27).

Having thus understood the meaning of "thou," one should then contemplate the meaning of "that," both by eliminating what is not 'that' and by means of direct definitions thereof. (28).

Bereft of all taint of phenomenal existence, characterised by phrases like "not dense, etc.",

qualified by non-objectivity, etc., free from the stain of nescience, (29),

Bliss unsurpassed, reality, knowledge, and existence by nature, all-filling,--'that' is spoken of as the Supreme Self. (30).

Understand that to be the Brahman in respect of which the Vedas assert omniscience, supreme lordship and omnipotence. (31).

Understand that to be the Brahman of which the Vedas explain, by various illustrations like clay [**], etc., that, by knowing it, all things are known: (32).

Understand that to be the Brahman, of which the Vedas enunciate infinitude and, to establish it, declare the universe to be the effect of that. [**] (33).

Understand that to he the Brahman which, in the Vedanta, is established, by close reasoning, as the (only) thing to be realised by the aspirants for liberation. (34).

Understand that to he the Brahman which is spoken of in the Vedas as having entered all beings as their souls and controlling them. (35).