स यथेमा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रायणाः समुद्रं प्राप्यास्तं गच्छन्ति । भिद्येते तासां नामरूपे । समुद्र इत्य् एवं प्रोच्यते । एवम् एवास्य परिद्रष्टुर् इमाः षोडश कलाः पुरुषायणाः पुरुषं प्राप्यास्तं गच्छन्ति । भिद्येते चासां नामरूपे । पुरुष इत्य् एवं प्रोच्यते । स एषो ऽकलो ऽमृतो भवति तदेष श्लोकः
sa yathemā nadyaḥ syandamānāḥ samudrāyaṇāḥ samudraṃ prāpyāstaṃ gacchanti | bhidyete tāsāṃ nāmarūpe | samudra ity evaṃ procyate | evam evāsya paridraṣṭur imāḥ ṣoḍaśa kalāḥ puruṣāyaṇāḥ puruṣaṃ prāpyāstaṃ gacchanti | bhidyete cāsāṃ nāmarūpe | puruṣa ity evaṃ procyate | sa eṣo 'kalo 'mṛto bhavati tadeṣa ślokaḥ
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
As these flowing rivers that go towards the ocean, when they have reached the ocean, sink into it, their name and form are broken, and people speak of the ocean only, exactly thus these sixteen parts of the spectator that go towards the person (purusha), when they have reached the person, sink into him, their name and form are broken, and people speak of the person only, and he becomes without parts and immortal. On this there is this verse:
Translated by F. Max Müller