वाक् ह उच्चक्राम सा संवत्सरं प्रोष्य आगत्य उवाच कथम् अशकत मद् ऋते जीवितुम् इति ते ह ऊचुः यथाकला अवदन्तो वाचा प्राणन्तः प्राणेन पश्यन्तश् चक्षुषा शृण्वन्तः श्रोत्रेण विद्वांसो मनसा प्रजायमाना रेतसा एवम् अजीविष्म इति प्रविवेश ह वाक्
vāk ha uccakrāma sā saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya āgatya uvāca katham aśakata mad ṛte jīvitum iti te ha ūcuḥ yathākalā avadanto vācā prāṇantaḥ prāṇena paśyantaś cakṣuṣā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa vidvāṃso manasā prajāyamānā retasā evam ajīviṣma iti praviveśa ha vāk
Speech went out. Having stayed away for a year, it came back and asked: "How did you live without me?" They said: "Like the dumb: not speaking with speech — but breathing with the breath, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear, knowing with the mind, procreating with the seed. So we lived." And speech entered again.
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The first to go is speech, and the body's verdict is honest: they lived "like the dumb" — cramped, but alive: the five remaining powers redistributed the service. A year is a full measure of experience: pride is allowed to serve out the whole term, so as to return without illusions.
Note the dignity of the parable: not one of the powers is mocked — each is given a year of glory through its absence, and of each the truth is told: without speech there is dumbness, not death. Life is greater than any of its great gifts — that is what is established year by year.