सः यः विज्ञानम् ब्रह्म इति उपास्ते विज्ञानवतः वै सः लोकान् ज्ञानवतः अभिसिध्यति यावत् विज्ञानस्य गतम् तत्र अस्य यथाकामचारः भवति यः विज्ञानम् ब्रह्म इति उपास्ते अस्ति भगवः विज्ञानात् भूयः इति विज्ञानात् वाव भूयः अस्ति इति तत् मे भगवान् ब्रवीतु इति
saḥ yaḥ vijñānam brahma iti upāste vijñānavataḥ vai saḥ lokān jñānavataḥ abhisidhyati yāvat vijñānasya gatam tatra asya yathākāmacāraḥ bhavati yaḥ vijñānam brahma iti upāste asti bhagavaḥ vijñānāt bhūyaḥ iti vijñānāt vāva bhūyaḥ asti iti tat me bhagavān bravītu iti
He who venerates comprehension as Brahman attains worlds of comprehension and knowledge, and is free to move as he wishes everywhere that comprehension reaches." — "Sir, is there anything greater than comprehension?" — "There is something greater than comprehension." — "Tell it to me, sir."
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The reward is "worlds of comprehension and knowledge": the spheres of the wise, the abodes of clarity. For the learned Nārada this might seem his native summit — and yet he asks further, faithful to his unquenchable instinct: if a question can be asked, there is something to ask about.
The teacher's answer will be deliberately sobering: above comprehension he will set… strength. Sanatkumāra's ladder is not afraid to descend, apparently, "downward" — to the bodily — in order to show that the most refined has coarse conditions of possibility. A humbling turn: wisdom rests on health as a lamp rests on oil.