The two lived there as brahmacharins for thirty-two years. Then Prajapati asked them: 'Desiring what have you been living here?' They replied: '"The Self that is free from evil, free from old age, free from death, free from sorrow, free from hunger and thirst, whose desire is truth, whose resolve is truth — that should be sought, that one should desire to know; he who has found and knows that Self obtains all worlds and all desires" — such, people declare, are your revered words. Desiring that Self, we have been living here.'