श्रोत्रं होच्चक्राम । तत् संवत्सरं प्रोष्य पर्येत्योवाच कथम् अशकतर्ते मज् जीवितुम् इति । यथा बधिरा अशृण्वन्तः प्राणन्तः प्राणेन वदन्तो वाचा पश्यन्तश् चक्षुषा ध्यायन्तो मनसैवम् इति । प्रविवेश ह श्रोत्रम्
śrotraṃ hoccakrāma | tat saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya paryetyovāca katham aśakatarte maj jīvitum iti | yathā badhirā aśṛṇvantaḥ prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā paśyantaś cakṣuṣā dhyāyanto manasaivam iti | praviveśa ha śrotram
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
The ear (hearing) departed, and having been absent for a year, it came round and said: 'How have you been able to live without me?' They replied: 'Like deaf people, not hearing, but breathing with the breath, speaking with the tongue, thinking with the mind. Thus we lived.' Then the ear went back.
Translated by F. Max Müller