What is invisible, ungraspable, without lineage, without color, without eye or ear, without hands or feet, eternal, all-pervading, everywhere, most subtle, undecaying—that the wise perceive as the source of all beings.
Just as 'I' is not the house, similarly, 'I' is not the body even. 'I' is in fact a spirit originating and flowing from God, a ramification of the divine entity. The value of human life or importance of the human body comes from the very realisation of this fact.
Whoever is ignorant of himself is yet more ignorant of other things; and inasmuch as a man is bound to know God, he must first know himself, in order that by rightly perceiving his own temporality he may recognize the eternity of God.