मनो ह उच्चक्राम तत् संवत्सरं प्रोष्य आगत्य उवाच कथम् अशकत मद् ऋते जीवितुम् इति ते ह ऊचुः यथा मुग्धा अविद्वांसो मनसा प्राणन्तः प्राणेन वदन्तो वाचा पश्यन्तश् चक्षुषा शृण्वन्तः श्रोत्रेण प्रजायमाना रेतसा एवम् अजीविष्म इति प्रविवेश ह मनः
mano ha uccakrāma tat saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya āgatya uvāca katham aśakata mad ṛte jīvitum iti te ha ūcuḥ yathā mugdhā avidvāṃso manasā prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā paśyantaś cakṣuṣā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa prajāyamānā retasā evam ajīviṣma iti praviveśa ha manaḥ
The mind went out. Having stayed away for a year, it came back and asked: "How did you live without me?" They said: "Like the witless: not thinking with the mind — but living by the other powers. So we lived." And it entered again.
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The fourth year is without the mind: they live "like the witless" (mugdhāḥ — simpletons). Reason, so proud of its title as master, was absent for a year — and life did not stop: thought is a late guest in a house it did not build.
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.