मनः ब्रह्म इति व्यजानात् मनसः हि एव खलु इमानि भूतानि जायन्ते मनसा जातानि जीवन्ति मनः प्रयन्ति अभिसंविशन्ति इति तत् विज्ञाय पुनः एव वरुणम् पितरम् उपससार अधीहि भगवः ब्रह्म इति तम् होवाच तपसा ब्रह्म विजिज्ञासस्व तपस् ब्रह्म इति सः तपस् अतप्यत सः तपस् तप्त्वा
manaḥ brahma iti vyajānāt manasaḥ hi eva khalu imāni bhūtāni jāyante manasā jātāni jīvanti manaḥ prayanti abhisaṃviśanti iti tat vijñāya punaḥ eva varuṇam pitaram upasasāra adhīhi bhagavaḥ brahma iti tam hovāca tapasā brahma vijijñāsasva tapas brahma iti saḥ tapas atapyata saḥ tapas taptvā
He discerned: "Mind is Brahman: for out of mind these beings are born, by mind, being born, they live, into mind they pass and enter." Having discerned this, he came again to his father Varuṇa: "Venerable one, teach me Brahman." He said to him: "By austerity seek to discern Brahman: austerity is Brahman." He kindled austerity; having kindled austerity…
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The third step: mano brahmeti — "mind is Brahman". And this is deeper than the prāṇa: the life of beings is born of a design (the parents' desire precedes conception; the will to live precedes breathing), lives by mind (a body that has lost the will to live goes out with its lungs intact) and returns into mind (in death the senses fold up into the manas — Praśna 3.9). Bhṛgu has discovered idealism: consciousness is prior to the vital force.
Each of his steps repeats the great philosophies of the world in their historical order: matter — life — mind: the Upaniṣad has passed through them all in three paragraphs and mocked none: each is true in its layer and becomes an error only by congealing. The error of the philosophies is not in their answers but in their stops.
tapasā brahma vijijñāsasva — for the fourth time the same command. Bhṛgu's fire is burning deep now: behind mind there glimmers that which judges the mind itself — discerning knowledge. But that too will prove a sheath: the father is inexorable, for he knows to what depth his son's burning must reach.