यत् एव ते कश्चिद् अब्रवीत् तत् शृणवाम इति अब्रवीन् मे बर्कुर् वार्ष्णः चक्षुर् वै ब्रह्म इति यथा मातृमान् पितृमान् आचार्यवान् ब्रूयात् तथा तत् वार्ष्णो अब्रवीच् चक्षुर् वै ब्रह्म इति अपश्यतः हि किं स्यात् इति अब्रवीत् तु ते तस्य आयतनम् प्रतिष्ठाम् न मे अब्रवीत् इति एकपाद् वा एतत् संराट् इति सः वै नः ब्रूहि याज्ञवल्क्य चक्षुर् एव आयतनम् आकाशः प्रतिष्ठा सत्यम् इति एतद् उपासीत का सत्यता याज्ञवल्क्य चक्षुर् एव संराट् इति ह उवाच चक्षुषा वै संराट् पश्यन्तम् आहुः अद्राक्षीः इति सः आह अद्राक्षम् इति तत् सत्यं भवति चक्षुर् वै संराट् परमं ब्रह्म न एनम् चक्षुर् जहाति सर्वाणि एनम् भूतानि अभिक्षरन्ति देवः भूत्वा देवान् अप्येति यः एवम् विद्वान् एतद् उपास्ते हस्त्यृषभम् सहस्रम् ददामि इति ह उवाच जनकः वैदेहः सः ह उवाच याज्ञवल्क्यः पिता मे अमन्यत न अननुशिष्य हरेत इति
yat eva te kaścid abravīt tat śṛṇavāma iti abravīn me barkur vārṣṇaḥ cakṣur vai brahma iti yathā mātṛmān pitṛmān ācāryavān brūyāt tathā tat vārṣṇo abravīc cakṣur vai brahma iti apaśyataḥ hi kiṃ syāt iti abravīt tu te tasya āyatanam pratiṣṭhām na me abravīt iti ekapād vā etat saṃrāṭ iti saḥ vai naḥ brūhi yājñavalkya cakṣur eva āyatanam ākāśaḥ pratiṣṭhā satyam iti etad upāsīta kā satyatā yājñavalkya cakṣur eva saṃrāṭ iti ha uvāca cakṣuṣā vai saṃrāṭ paśyantam āhuḥ adrākṣīḥ iti saḥ āha adrākṣam iti tat satyaṃ bhavati cakṣur vai saṃrāṭ paramaṃ brahma na enam cakṣur jahāti sarvāṇi enam bhūtāni abhikṣaranti devaḥ bhūtvā devān apyeti yaḥ evam vidvān etad upāste hastyṛṣabham sahasram dadāmi iti ha uvāca janakaḥ vaidehaḥ saḥ ha uvāca yājñavalkyaḥ pitā me amanyata na ananuśiṣya hareta iti
"Let us hear what they have told you." — "Barku Vārṣṇa told me: 'Sight is Brahman'." — "As one who has a mother, a father and a teacher would say it, so he said: 'sight is Brahman'; for what would one have who does not see? But did he tell you its dwelling and its support?" — "He did not." — "That is a one-footed [Brahman], your majesty." — "Then tell us yourself, Yājñavalkya!" And he named its dwelling, its support and how it should be venerated — and Janaka offered a thousand cows with a bull-elephant, and Yājñavalkya answered: "My father held that one should not take a fee without having taught the whole."
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"Sight is Brahman": the eye, the senior witness, the consort of the sun. And again a quarter without a support. The filling out: the dwelling of sight is the eye, its support is space; it is to be venerated as "truth" (satya) — for what one has seen with one's own eyes is just what people call the truth: the eye is the organ of certainty.
The shape of the round is always the same, and in it lies Yājñavalkya's method: every partial thesis is honoured (there is a lawful succession behind it and an honest argument), weighed ("one-footed" without a dwelling and a support) and filled out to four feet. And every time there is the refusal of payment until the teaching is complete: with him the truth is not sold by the piece.