न्यग्रोधफलम् अतः आहर इति इदम् भगवः इति भिन्द्धि इति भिन्नम् भगवः इति किम् अत्र पश्यसि इति अण्व्यः इव इमाः धानाः भगवः इति आसाम् अङ्ग एकाम् भिन्द्धि इति भिन्ना भगवः इति किम् अत्र पश्यसि इति न किंचन भगवः इति
nyagrodhaphalam ataḥ āhara iti idam bhagavaḥ iti bhinddhi iti bhinnam bhagavaḥ iti kim atra paśyasi iti aṇvyaḥ iva imāḥ dhānāḥ bhagavaḥ iti āsām aṅga ekām bhinddhi iti bhinnā bhagavaḥ iti kim atra paśyasi iti na kiṃcana bhagavaḥ iti
"Bring me a fruit of the nyagrodha." — "Here it is, sir." — "Split it." — "I have split it, sir." — "What do you see in it?" — "Tiny seeds, sir." — "Split one of them." — "I have split it, sir." — "What do you see in it?" — "Nothing, sir."
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The fourth parable is acted out in dialogue, like a little drama: the banyan fruit — the seeds — the split seed — "nothing". The nyagrodha is chosen with genius: from a giant of a tree, whose branches let down roots and become a grove, comes a seed like a poppy grain, and in the seed, to the eye, emptiness.
"Nothing, sir," says the youth, and this is an honest report of his sight. But it is precisely here that the father was leading: to the frontier where the eye goes off duty. Everything huge grows out of the invisible; the force that holds up a grove does not show itself at the split of a seed. The instrument by which a thing was taken apart is not the one by which its essence is seen — and the father will now name the one that is.