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IV ADHYAYA, I BRÂHŇANA, 7. 157 Ganaka Vaideha replied: ‘Satyakama Gâbâla told me that mind 1 (manas) is Brahman.'
Yâgñavalkya said: "As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Satyakâma Gâbâla 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.'
Yâgñavalkya said: 'Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only.'
Ganaka Vaideha said: “Then tell me, Yagñavalkya.'
Yâgñavalkya 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 ?'
Yagñavalkya 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.'
Yâgñavalkya said: 'My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil.'
7. Yâgñavalkya said: 'Let us hear what anybody may have told you.'
Ganaka Vaideha replied: “Vidagdha Sâkalya told me that the heart (hridaya) is Brahman.'
Yâgñavalkya said: 'As one who had (the benefit
1 See also Taitt. Up. III, 4.
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