रेतो ह उच्चक्राम तत् संवत्सरं प्रोष्य आगत्य उवाच कथम् अशकत मद् ऋते जीवितुम् इति ते ह ऊचुः यथा क्लीबा अप्रजायमाना रेतासा प्राणन्तः प्राणेन वदन्तो वाचा पश्यन्तश् चक्षुषा शृण्वन्तः श्रोत्रेण विद्वांसो मनसा एवम् अजीविष्म इति प्रविवेश ह रेतः
reto ha uccakrāma tat saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya āgatya uvāca katham aśakata mad ṛte jīvitum iti te ha ūcuḥ yathā klībā aprajāyamānā retāsā prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā paśyantaś cakṣuṣā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa vidvāṃso manasā evam ajīviṣma iti praviveśa ha retaḥ
The seed went out. Having stayed away for a year, it came back and asked: "How did you live without me?" They said: "Like the impotent: not begetting with the seed — but living by the other powers. So we lived." And it entered again.
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The fifth year is without seed: they live "like eunuchs" (klībāḥ). Even the power of continuing the line is not a condition of life itself; the childless are fully alive. The fivefold experiment is over: all the great ones would yield their place — the turn of the sixth has come.
The rhythm of the parable does not change: a year away — a question — the body's sober answer — a quiet return to its place. Every power measures its own absence in person and satisfies itself in person: without it there is a maiming, not a death. Humility is not taught from outside — it is worked out by going away.