सः होवाच गार्ग्यः यः एव अयम् अग्नौ पुरुषः एतम् एव अहम् ब्रह्म उपास इति सः होवाच अजातशत्रुः मा म एतस्मिन् संवदिष्ठाः विषासहिः इति वै अहम् एतम् उपास इति सः यः एतम् एवम् उपास्ते विषासहिः ह भवति विषासहिः ह अस्य प्रजा भवति
saḥ hovāca gārgyaḥ yaḥ eva ayam agnau puruṣaḥ etam eva aham brahma upāsa iti saḥ hovāca ajātaśatruḥ mā ma etasmin saṃvadiṣṭhāḥ viṣāsahiḥ iti vai aham etam upāsa iti saḥ yaḥ etam evam upāste viṣāsahiḥ ha bhavati viṣāsahiḥ ha asya prajā bhavati
Gārgya said: "The person who is in fire — him I venerate as Brahman." Ajātaśatru said: "Do not speak to me of him! I venerate him as the All-overcoming." He who venerates him thus becomes all-overcoming, and his offspring become all-overcoming.
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The sixth address is fire, and the rank is viṣāsahi, "the All-overcoming": flame overcomes everything set before it, making no distinction between the hard and the soft. The fruit is the same all-conquering power in the man and in his line.
Half the list is done, and its law is visible: Gārgya names the bearers, the king names the powers. The scholar sees the things (sun, wind, fire); the knower sees the energies of the One at work in them. This is the difference between a collector of holy places and a theologian: the first gathers addresses, the second reads one Will in every address.