मनो होच्चक्राम; तत्संवत्सरं प्रोष्यागत्योवाच, कथमशकत मदृते जीवितुमिति; ते होचुः, यथा मुग्धा अविद्वांसो मनसा, प्राणन्तः प्राणेन, वदन्तो वाचा, पश्यन्तश्चक्शुषा, शृण्वन्तः श्रोत्रेण, प्रजायमाना रेतसा, एवमजीविष्मेति; प्रविवेश ह मनः ॥ ११ ॥
mano hoccakrāma; tatsaṃvatsaraṃ proṣyāgatyovāca, kathamaśakata madṛte jīvitumiti; te hocuḥ, yathā mugdhā avidvāṃso manasā, prāṇantaḥ prāṇena, vadanto vācā, paśyantaścakśuṣā, śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa, prajāyamānā retasā, evamajīviṣmeti; praviveśa ha manaḥ || 11 ||
11. The mind went out. After staying a whole year out it came back and said, ‘How did you manage to live without me?’ They said, ‘We lived just as idiots do, without knowing through the mind, but living through the vital force, speaking through the organ of speech, seeing through the eye, hearing through the ear and having children through the organ of generation.’ So the mind entered.