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find my domain', searching through the (whole) earth. When I did not find it on the earth, I looked for Mithilâ; when I did not find it in Mithila, I looked for my own offspring. When I did not find it among them, then came the delusion on me. Then on the expiration of the delusion, intelligence again came to me. Now I think that there is no domain (of mine), or that everything is my domain. Even this self is not mine, or the whole earth is mine. And as mine, so (is it) that of others too, I believe, O best of the twice-born! Live (here, therefore) while you desire, and enjoy while you live '.
The Brâhmana said : Tell me, what belief you have resorted to, by which, though this country, which is the kingdom of your father and grandfather, is subject to you, you have got rid of the notion that this or that is) mine. What conviction have you adopted, by which verily you consider your whole domain as not (your) domain, or all as your domain ?
Ganaka said: I understand (all) conditions here, in all affairs, to be terminable', hence I could not find anything that should be (called) mine. (Considering) whose this
Meaning, apparently, that over which he and no one else has power. He contracts his vision gradually, and finds nothing at all which he can call his own to the exclusion of others. He explains, further on, how he arrives at the alternative conviction stated towards the close of this speech. In the Brihadaranyaka (p. 916) he is said to have offered his kingdom to Yágnavalkya and himself as his slave, after learning the Brahma-vidya. See too Muir, Sanskrit Texts, vol. iv, p. 426 seq.
See Sänti Parvan (Moksha) I, 13. "Conditions of indigence or affluence, Nilakantha. Arguna Misra's reading is different.
• There is a familiar verse, ascribed to Ganaka, which says, 'If
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