'I am food (object), I am food, I am food! I am the eater of food (subject), I am the eater of food, I am the eater of food! I am the poet (who joins the two together), I am the poet, I am the poet! I am the first-born of the Right (rita). Before the Devas I was in the centre of all that is immortal. He who gives me away, he alone preserves me: him who eats food, I eat as food. 'I overcome the whole world, I, endowed with golden light. He who knows this, (attains all this).' This is the Upanishad.

In plain words: The freed person sings that he is both the food and the one who eats it, and the one who joins them together; he was there before the gods, at the heart of all that never dies. Whoever shares him keeps him, whoever only takes is himself taken, and the one who knows this shines and rises over the whole world.