यत् एव ते कश्चिद् अब्रवीत् तत् शृणवाम इति अब्रवीन् मे सत्यकामो जाबालः मनः वै ब्रह्म इति यथा मातृमान् पितृमान् आचार्यवान् ब्रूयात् तथा तत् जाबालो अब्रवीन् मनः वै ब्रह्म इति अमनसः हि किं स्यात् इति अब्रवीत् तु ते तस्य आयतनम् प्रतिष्ठाम् न मे अब्रवीत् इति एकपाद् वा एतत् संराट् इति सः वै नः ब्रूहि याज्ञवल्क्य मनः एव आयतनम् आकाशः प्रतिष्ठा आनन्दः इति एनद् उपासीत का आनन्दता याज्ञवल्क्य मनः एव संराट् इति ह उवाच मनसा वै संराट् स्त्रियम् अभि हार्यति तस्याम् प्रतिरूपः पुत्रो जायते सः आनन्दः मनः वै संराट् परमं ब्रह्म न एनम् मनः 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 satyakāmo jābālaḥ manaḥ vai brahma iti yathā mātṛmān pitṛmān ācāryavān brūyāt tathā tat jābālo abravīn manaḥ vai brahma iti amanasaḥ hi kiṃ syāt iti abravīt tu te tasya āyatanam pratiṣṭhām na me abravīt iti ekapād vā etat saṃrāṭ iti saḥ vai naḥ brūhi yājñavalkya manaḥ eva āyatanam ākāśaḥ pratiṣṭhā ānandaḥ iti enad upāsīta kā ānandatā yājñavalkya manaḥ eva saṃrāṭ iti ha uvāca manasā vai saṃrāṭ striyam abhi hāryati tasyām pratirūpaḥ putro jāyate saḥ ānandaḥ manaḥ vai saṃrāṭ paramaṃ brahma na enam manaḥ 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." — "Satyakāma Jābāla told me: 'The mind is Brahman'." — "As one who has a mother, a father and a teacher would say it, so he said: 'the mind is Brahman'; for what would one have who is without a mind? 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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"The mind is Brahman" — and the teacher of this thesis is an old friend: Satyakāma Jābāla, the hero of the Chāndogya (4.4–9)! The filling out: the dwelling of the mind is the mind itself, its support is space; it is to be venerated as "bliss" (ānanda): every joy is tasted by the mind — the mind is the organ of happiness.
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.