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156 I56 BRIH ADAR AZVYAK A-UPANISH AD,

Y&£%avalkya said : ' As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Gardabhivibhita Bhdradv^a tell you that hear- ing i s Brahman; for what is the use of a person who cannot hear ? But did he tell you the body and the resting-place of that Brahman?'

Ganaka 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/

• Yd^avalkya said : ' The ear is its body, ether its place, and we should worship it as what is endless/

kanaka Vaideha said : 'What is the nature of that which is endless ?'

Yd^avalkya replied : ' Your Majesty, space (dLra^) itself (is that which is endless), and therefore to whatever space (quarter) he goes, he never comes to the end of it For space is endless. Space indeed, O King, is hearing and hearing indeed, O King, is the Highest Brahman. Hearing does not desert him who worships that (Brahman) with such know- ledge, all creatures approach him, and having become a god, he goes to the gods/

kanaka 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/

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

1 Dvivedagahga states, digbh&go hi pa^thiv&dhish/Mn£va£Min- na£ jrotram ity u^yate, atas tayor ekatvam.

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