Godliness, which is hidden within all living beings as the self, is invisible. It can be seen only by one with the sharpest and highest intelligence, by one whose sight has become subtle.
"The intelligent seeker must first dissolve speech and all the other senses into mind, then dissolve mind into wakeful intelligence, then dissolve wakeful intelligence into the great soul, then dissolve the great soul into godliness, the universal soul which is the very abode of silence.
"Arise, wake up! Seeking the great self-realized ones and being with them, you will know the ultimate reality through them. The wise ones describe the way to self-realization as a path that is as difficult to walk upon as the sharp edge of a knife.
"One will be forever freed from the clutches of death by knowing the ultimate reality which is beyond sound, touch, form, taste and smell; which is indestructible and timeless, beginningless and endless, supreme, greater than the soul - the eternal truth."
The intelligent one attains to the glory of brahmaloka, the realm of the ultimate reality, by sharing or listening to this ancient discourse given by Yamaraja, the Lord of Death, to Nachiketa.
After becoming pure in all ways, one who shares this most mysterious knowledge in a brahma sansad, an assembly of the brahmins, or who shares it with those assembled on the occasion of a shradh, a death ceremony, will know the fruits of deathlessness. He will gain the capacity to become one with the infinite.