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154 BRIU ADARAiVYAKA-UPANISH AD.

Udanka vSaulbiyana tell you that life is Brahman ; for what is the use of a person without life ? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman?'

Ganaka Vaideha said : i He did not tell me/

Y&£$avalkya said : * Your Majesty, this (Brahman) stands on one leg only/

kanaka Vaideha said; 'Then tell me, Y&£*#a- valkya/

Y£f#avalkya said : ' Breath is its body, ether its lace, and one should worship it as what is dear/

Ganaka Vaideha said: 'What is the nature of that which is dear ? '

Y&£$avalkya replied : l Your Majesty, life itself (is that which is dear);' because for the sake of life, Your Majesty, a man sacrifices even for him who is unworthy of sacrifice, he accepts presents from him who is not worthy to bestow presents, nay, he goes to a country, even when there is fear of being hurt for the sake of life. Life, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Life 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/

Y&£-«avalkya said : ' My father was of opinion that one should not accept a reward without having fully instructed a pupil/

4. Yd^avalkya said : ' Let us hear what anybody may have told you/

1 Or it may mean, he is afraid of being hurt, to whatever country he goes, for the sake of a livelihood.

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