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1Ganaka Vaideha replied: ‘ Barku Varsha told me that sight (Aakshus) is Brahman.’ Yagaavalkya said: ‘As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Barku Varsha tell you that sight is Brahman; for what is the use of a person who cannot see ? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman ?’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ He did not tell me.’ YAg#avalkya said: ‘Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘Then tell me, Y4g#avalkya.’ YAgaiavalkya said : ‘ The eye is its body, ether its place, and one should worship it as what is true.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ What is the nature of that which is true ?’ Yagfavalkya replied: ‘Your Majesty, sight itself (is that which is true); for if they say toa man who sees with his eye, “ Didst thou see?” and he says, “I saw,” then it is true. Sight, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Sight does not desert him who worships that (Brahman) with such knowledge, all creatures approach him, and having become a god, he goes to the gods.’ : Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘I shall give you (for this) a thousand cows with a bull as big as an elephant.’ YAgwiavalkya said: ‘My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.’ 5. YAgaavalkya said: ‘Let us hear what anybody may have told you.’ Ganaka Vaideha replied: ‘Gardabhivibhita Bharadvaga told me that hearing (srotra) is Brahman.’ 156 BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
2Yagfavalkya said: ‘As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Gardabhivibhita Bharadvaga tell you that hearing is Brahman; for what is the use of a person who cannot hear? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman ?’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ He did not tell me.’ YAgaavalkya said: ‘ Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘Then tell me, YAg#avalkya.’ YAgwiavalkya said: ‘ The ear is its body, ether its place, and we should worship it as what is endless.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ What is the nature of that which is endless ?’ Yaguavalkya replied: ‘Your Majesty, space (disaX) itself (is that which is endless), and therefore to whatever space (quarter) he goes, he never comes to the end of it. For space is endless. Space indeed, O King, is hearing!, and hearing indeed, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Hearing does not desert him who worships that (Brahman) with such knowledge, all creatures approach him, and having become a god, he goes to the gods.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘I shall give you (for this) a thousand cows with a bull as big as an elephant.’ Yagvavalkya said: ‘ My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.’ 6. Yga#avalkya said: ‘ Let us hear what anybody may have told you.’ Dvivedaganga states, digbhago hi pArthivadhish/sanavakshinnah srotram ity ufyate, atas tayor ekatvam.
3IV ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, 7. 157 SE ne Ganaka Vaideha replied : ‘Satyakama Gabala told me that mind?! (manas) is Brahman.’ Yagiavalkya said: ‘As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Satyakama Gabala tell you that mind is Brahman; for what is the use of a person without mind? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman ?’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ He did not tell me.’ Y4giiavalkya said: ‘Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ Then tell me, Yagfavalkya.’ YAagziavalkya said: ‘Mind itself is its body, ether its place, and we should worship it as bliss.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘What is the nature of bliss ?’ Yagzavalkya replied: ‘ Your Majesty, mind itself; for with the mind does a man desire a woman, and a like son is born of her, and he is bliss. Mind indeed, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Mind does not desert him who worships that (Brahman) with such knowledge, all creatures approach him, and having become a god, he goes to the gods.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘I shall give you (for this) a thousand cows with a bull as big as an elephant.’ YAgziavalkya said: ‘ My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.’ 7. Yagiavalkya said: ‘Let us hear what anybody may have told you. Ganaka Vaideha replied: ‘ Vidagdha Sakalya told me that the heart (hvzdaya) is Brahman.’ YAagiiavalkya said: ‘ As one who had (the benefit 1 See also Taitt. Up. III, 4. 158 BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Ganaka Vaideha replied: ‘ Barku Varsha told me that sight (Aakshus) is Brahman.’ Yagaavalkya said: ‘As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Barku Varsha tell you that sight is Brahman; for what is the use of a person who cannot see ? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman ?’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ He did not tell me.’ YAg#avalkya said: ‘Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘Then tell me, Y4g#avalkya.’ YAgaiavalkya said : ‘ The eye is its body, ether its place, and one should worship it as what is true.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ What is the nature of that which is true ?’ Yagfavalkya replied: ‘Your Majesty, sight itself (is that which is true); for if they say toa man who sees with his eye, “ Didst thou see?” and he says, “I saw,” then it is true. Sight, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Sight does not desert him who worships that (Brahman) with such knowledge, all creatures approach him, and having become a god, he goes to the gods.’ : Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘I shall give you (for this) a thousand cows with a bull as big as an elephant.’ YAgwiavalkya said: ‘My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.’ 5. YAgaavalkya said: ‘Let us hear what anybody may have told you.’ Ganaka Vaideha replied: ‘Gardabhivibhita Bharadvaga told me that hearing (srotra) is Brahman.’ 156 BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
2Yagfavalkya said: ‘As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Gardabhivibhita Bharadvaga tell you that hearing is Brahman; for what is the use of a person who cannot hear? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman ?’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ He did not tell me.’ YAgaavalkya said: ‘ Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘Then tell me, YAg#avalkya.’ YAgwiavalkya said: ‘ The ear is its body, ether its place, and we should worship it as what is endless.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ What is the nature of that which is endless ?’ Yaguavalkya replied: ‘Your Majesty, space (disaX) itself (is that which is endless), and therefore to whatever space (quarter) he goes, he never comes to the end of it. For space is endless. Space indeed, O King, is hearing!, and hearing indeed, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Hearing does not desert him who worships that (Brahman) with such knowledge, all creatures approach him, and having become a god, he goes to the gods.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘I shall give you (for this) a thousand cows with a bull as big as an elephant.’ Yagvavalkya said: ‘ My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.’ 6. Yga#avalkya said: ‘ Let us hear what anybody may have told you.’ Dvivedaganga states, digbhago hi pArthivadhish/sanavakshinnah srotram ity ufyate, atas tayor ekatvam.
3IV ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, 7. 157 SE ne Ganaka Vaideha replied : ‘Satyakama Gabala told me that mind?! (manas) is Brahman.’ Yagiavalkya said: ‘As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Satyakama Gabala tell you that mind is Brahman; for what is the use of a person without mind? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman ?’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ He did not tell me.’ Y4giiavalkya said: ‘Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘ Then tell me, Yagfavalkya.’ YAagziavalkya said: ‘Mind itself is its body, ether its place, and we should worship it as bliss.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘What is the nature of bliss ?’ Yagzavalkya replied: ‘ Your Majesty, mind itself; for with the mind does a man desire a woman, and a like son is born of her, and he is bliss. Mind indeed, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Mind does not desert him who worships that (Brahman) with such knowledge, all creatures approach him, and having become a god, he goes to the gods.’ Ganaka Vaideha said: ‘I shall give you (for this) a thousand cows with a bull as big as an elephant.’ YAgziavalkya said: ‘ My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.’ 7. Yagiavalkya said: ‘Let us hear what anybody may have told you. Ganaka Vaideha replied: ‘ Vidagdha Sakalya told me that the heart (hvzdaya) is Brahman.’ YAagiiavalkya said: ‘ As one who had (the benefit 1 See also Taitt. Up. III, 4. 158 BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
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