Verse 1.156

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

वाजमन्नमिति ज्ञेयं तद्वतीव दिवाकरे ।
स्वमृतं परमं ब्रह्म बुद्धावस्यामहं सदा ॥ १५६ ॥

vājamannamiti jñeyaṃ tadvatīva divākare |
svamṛtaṃ paramaṃ brahma buddhāvasyāmahaṃ sadā || 156 ||

English translation of verse 1.156:

The word vāja [vājam] means food. Like the immortal Self in the sun which is possessed of that (nectar-food), I always remain svamṛtam, that is, the supreme Brahman in the intellect.

Notes:

Many śruti texts point out that the pure, immortal principle called the Self (ātmatattva [ātmatattvam]) which is in the jīva is the same as that which is in the sun. See, for instance, the Taittirīya text (II, viii, 5) which says: "He that is here in the human person, and He that is there in the sun, are one.” In the third chapter of the Chāndogya Upaniṣad it has been said that the solar sphere is sweet-honey, and that in its several compartments, eastern, western, etc., there are stored up immortal essences of red, white, and other colours, constituting the fruits of works, and that Vasus and other gods live upon these immortal food (karmaphalarūpam vasvādi-devabhogyam-amṛtamannam).