One man sees this Self as a wonder, as something never seen before, a marvel suddenly come into view; another speaks of it likewise as a wonder; and another hears of it as a wonder. And even having heard, seen and spoken of it, not one truly knows it. Or else: the one who sees the Self is like a wonder, and the one who speaks of it and the one who hears of it are, among many thousands, only some rare one. So the Self is hard to grasp. Now He rounds off the topic.

The self, whose nature has been described, abiding as a thing marvellous, of a kind utterly unlike all things other than itself, present in the endless host of creatures, some one man, his sin worn away and his merit heaped up by great austerity, sees; some such man speaks of it to another; and some one man hears of it; and even having heard of it, no one knows it, abiding as it truly is, in truth. By the word 'and', it is conveyed that, even among seers, speakers, and hearers, seeing in truth, speaking in truth, and hearing in truth are hard to come by.

Since union with and separation from a body are fixed, and since the self has the same form as the Lord and is in every way indestructible, no grief should be felt. To round this off, Krishna once more shows the Lord-derived power of the self with 'one sees it as a wonder'. The sense is 'as a thing hard to come by', for in the world it is just such hard-won things that are called a wonder. And the one who sees the self is himself hard to find, because the self has the same form as the Lord and is subtle.