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155 IV ADHYAYA, I BRAHMAJVA, 5. 1 55

Ganaka Vaideha replied : ' Barku Varshwa told me that sight (£akshus) is Brahman/

Y££*#avalkya said : ' As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Barku Virsh^a 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 ? '

kanaka Vaideha said : ' 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&£*#avalkya 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 ? '

Y&£*#avalkya 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/

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

5. Y&£*#avalkya said : 'Let us hear what anybody may have told you/

Ganaka Vaideha replied : ' Gardabhivibhlta Bh£- radv^a told me that hearing (^rotra) is Brahman/

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