Vaishampayana sajd— When it becomes able to abstain entirely from acts, the twenty-fifth, i.e., the Individual Soul, succeeds in attaining to the foremost of Beings which is highly subtile, which is invested with the quality of Goodness, and which is highly of Goodness, and which is fraught with the essence symbolised by the three letters of the alphabet (viz., A. U. and M.)
वैशम्पायन उवाच सुसूक्ष्मं सत्त्वसंयुक्तं संयुक्तं त्रिभिरक्षरैः॥ पुरुषः पुरुषं गच्छेनिष्क्रियः पञ्चविंशकः।