यत् एव ते कश्चिद् अब्रवीत् तत् शृणवाम इति अब्रवीन् मे विदग्धः शाकल्यः हृदयं वै ब्रह्म इति यथा मातृमान् पितृमान् आचार्यवान् ब्रूयात् तथा तत् छाकल्यो अब्रवीद् धृदयं वै ब्रह्म इति अहृदयस्य हि किं स्यात् इति अब्रवीत् तु ते तस्य आयतनम् प्रतिष्ठाम् न मे अब्रवीत् इति एकपाद् वा एतत् संराट् इति सः वै नः ब्रूहि याज्ञवल्क्य हृदयम् एव आयतनम् आकाशः प्रतिष्ठा स्थितिः इति एनद् उपासीत का स्थितिता याज्ञवल्क्य हृदयम् एव संराट् इति ह उवाच हृदयं वै संराट् सर्वेषाम् भूतानाम् आयतनम् हृदयं वै संराट् सर्वेषाम् भूतानाम् प्रतिष्ठा हृदये हि एव संराट् सर्वाणि भूतानि प्रतिष्ठितानि भवन्ति हृदयं वै संराट् परमं ब्रह्म न एनम् हृदयं 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 vidagdhaḥ śākalyaḥ hṛdayaṃ vai brahma iti yathā mātṛmān pitṛmān ācāryavān brūyāt tathā tat chākalyo abravīd dhṛdayaṃ vai brahma iti ahṛdayasya hi kiṃ syāt iti abravīt tu te tasya āyatanam pratiṣṭhām na me abravīt iti ekapād vā etat saṃrāṭ iti saḥ vai naḥ brūhi yājñavalkya hṛdayam eva āyatanam ākāśaḥ pratiṣṭhā sthitiḥ iti enad upāsīta kā sthititā yājñavalkya hṛdayam eva saṃrāṭ iti ha uvāca hṛdayaṃ vai saṃrāṭ sarveṣām bhūtānām āyatanam hṛdayaṃ vai saṃrāṭ sarveṣām bhūtānām pratiṣṭhā hṛdaye hi eva saṃrāṭ sarvāṇi bhūtāni pratiṣṭhitāni bhavanti hṛdayaṃ vai saṃrāṭ paramaṃ brahma na enam hṛdayaṃ 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." — "Vidagdha Śākalya told me: 'The heart is Brahman'." — "As one who has a mother, a father and a teacher would say it, so he said: 'the heart is Brahman'; for what would one have who is without a heart? 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 heart is Brahman" — and on Yājñavalkya's lips sounds the name of the luckless Śākalya, whose head he saw fall (3.9): even the swaggerer had his grain of truth, and the victor honestly passes it on. The filling out: the dwelling of the heart is itself, its support is space; it is to be venerated as "steadfastness" (sthiti): upon the heart, as the night of the tournament established, all the quarters of the sky stand.
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.