एवम् एव खलु सोम्य विद्धि इति ह उवाच जीवापेतम् वाव किल इदम् म्रियते न जीवः म्रियते इति सः यः एषः अणिमा एतत् आत्म्यम् इदम् सर्वम् तत् सत्यम् सः आत्मा तत् त्वम् असि श्वेतकेतो इति भूयः एव मा भगवान् विज्ञापयतु इति तथा सोम्य इति ह उवाच
evam eva khalu somya viddhi iti ha uvāca jīvāpetam vāva kila idam mriyate na jīvaḥ mriyate iti saḥ yaḥ eṣaḥ aṇimā etat ātmyam idam sarvam tat satyam saḥ ātmā tat tvam asi śvetaketo iti bhūyaḥ eva mā bhagavān vijñāpayatu iti tathā somya iti ha uvāca
"Know it thus, my dear," he said: "this, abandoned by life, dies; life itself does not die. That subtle essence is that of which all this consists; that is the truth; that is the ātman. You are that, Śvetaketu." — "Let your reverence explain to me still further." — "So be it, my dear," he said.
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Out of the botany, the lightning of a conclusion: jīvāpetaṁ vāva kiledam mriyate na jīvo mriyate — "this, abandoned by life, dies; life does not die". Branches have death — the soul has none: it is not what dies but that by whose departure things die. Everything mournful in the world concerns what has been left; concerning the one who leaves there is not a single mournful fact in the world.
This is the fourth tat tvam asi — and the most direct consolation of the nine: you are that life which withers branches by leaving and does not itself wither. The Gītā will unfold this verse into a whole song of immortality: na jāyate mriyate vā kadācit — "it is never born and never dies; fire does not burn it, water does not wet it" (BG 2.20–23). And for the Vedānta of love there is more here: the undying jīva is not an impersonal force but a child of the Being who entered the world "as the living soul" (6.3.2); immortality is not a property but a kinship.