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157 IV ADHYAYA, I BRAHMAJVA, J. 157

(kanaka Vaideha replied: 'Satyak&ma 6£b41a told me that mind * (manas) is Brahman/

Y&£$avalkya said : ' As one who had (the benefit of a good) father, mother, and teacher might tell, so did Satyakima 6£b£la tell you that mind is Brah- man ; for what is the use of a person without mind ? 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&£$avalkya/

Y&£-#avalkya said : c Mind itself is its body, ether its place, and we should worship it as bliss/

kanaka Vaideha said: 'What is the nature of bliss ?'

Y&£$avalkya 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/

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/

7. Y&£$avalkya said : ' Let us hear what anybody may have told you/

kanaka Vaideha replied: 'Vidagdha .SSkalya told me that the heart (hWdaya) is Brahman/

Y&£$avalkya said : ' As one who had (the benefit

1 See also Taitt. Up. Ill, 4.

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