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understand them! The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path (to the Self) is hard.

18. He who has perceived that which is without sound, without touch, without form, without decay, without taste, eternal, without smell, without beginning, without end, beyond the Great, and unchangeable, is freed from the jaws of death.

19. A wise man who has repeated or heard the ancient story of Nakiketas told by Death, is magnified in the world of Brahman.

20. And he who repeats this greatest mystery in an assembly of Brâhmans, or full of devotion at the time of the Srâddha sacrifice, obtains thereby infinite rewards."