As in the ocean all the waters have their meeting-place; as the skin is the meeting-place of all touches; the tongue, of all tastes; the nose, of all smells; the mind, of all precepts; the heart, of all knowledges; ...

as salt cast into water is dissolved so that one cannot seize it, but wherever one tastes it is salty, so this Great Being, endless, limitless, is a mass of knowledge.

It arises out of the elements and then disappears in them.

After death there is no more consciousness.[26] I have spoken.' Thus said Y[=a]jnavalkya.

Then said M[=a]itrey[=i]: 'Truly my Lord has bewildered me in saying that after death there is no more consciousness.' And Y[=a]jnavalkya said: 'I say nothing bewildering, but what suffices for understanding.