श्रोत्रं ह उच्चक्राम तत् संवत्सरं प्रोष्य आगत्य उवाच कथम् अशकत मद् ऋते जीवितुम् इति ते ह ऊचुः यथा बधिरा अशृण्वन्तः श्रोत्रेण प्राणन्तः प्राणेन वदन्तो वाचा पश्यन्तश् चक्षुषा विद्वांसो मनसा प्रजायमाना रेतसा एवम् अजीविष्म इति प्रविवेश ह श्रोत्रम्
śrotraṃ ha uccakrāma tat saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya āgatya uvāca katham aśakata mad ṛte jīvitum iti te ha ūcuḥ yathā badhirā aśṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā paśyantaś cakṣuṣā vidvāṃso manasā prajāyamānā retasā evam ajīviṣma iti praviveśa ha śrotram
Hearing went out. Having stayed away for a year, it came back and asked: "How did you live without me?" They said: "Like the deaf: not hearing with hearing — but living by the other powers. So we lived." And it entered again.
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The third year is without hearing: they live "like the deaf". Even the doorway of the Veda proved not to be a load-bearing wall of the house; life rests not on its doors but on its master.
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.