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IV ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 5. 155 Ganaka Vaideha replied : ‘Barku Vârshna told me that sight (kakshus) is Brahman.'
Yagñavalkya said: 'As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Barku Vârshna 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.'
Yâgñavalkya said: ' Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.'
Ganaka Vaideha said: “Then tell me, Yagñavalkya.'
Yâgñavalkya 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 ?''
Yâgñavalkya replied: "Your Majesty, sight itself (is that which is true); for if they say to a 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.'
Yagñavalkya said: 'My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.'
5. Yâgñavalkya said: 'Let us hear what anybody may have told you.'
Ganaka Vaideha replied: 'Gardabhivibhita Bhâradvậga told me that hearing (srotra) is Brahman.'
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2523 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |