स ब्रूयात् । नास्य जरयैतज् जीर्यति न वधेनास्य हन्यते । एतत् सत्यं ब्रह्मपुरम् अस्मिन् कामाः समाहिताः । एष आत्मापहतपाप्मा विजरो विमृत्युर् विशोको विजिघत्सो ऽपिपासः सत्यकामः सत्यसंकल्पः । यथा ह्य् एवेह प्रजा अन्वाविशन्ति यथानुशासनम् । यं यम् अन्तम् अभिकामा भवन्ति यं जनपदं यं क्षेत्रभागं तं तम् एवोपजीवन्ति
sa brūyāt | nāsya jarayaitaj jīryati na vadhenāsya hanyate | etat satyaṃ brahmapuram asmin kāmāḥ samāhitāḥ | eṣa ātmāpahatapāpmā vijaro vimṛtyur viśoko vijighatso 'pipāsaḥ satyakāmaḥ satyasaṃkalpaḥ | yathā hy eveha prajā anvāviśanti yathānuśāsanam | yaṃ yam antam abhikāmā bhavanti yaṃ janapadaṃ yaṃ kṣetrabhāgaṃ taṃ tam evopajīvanti
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Then he should say: 'By the old age of the body, that (the ether, or Brahman within it) does not age; by the death of the body, that (the ether, or Brahman within it) is not killed. That (the Brah man) is the true Brahma-city (not the body). In it all desires are contained. It is the Self, free from sin, free from old age, from death and grief, from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing but what it ought to desire, and imagines nothing but what it ought to imagine. Now as here on earth people follow as they are commanded, and depend on the object which they are attached to, be it a country or a piece of land,
Translated by F. Max Müller