सः ह गौतमः राज्ञः अर्धम् एयाय तस्मै ह प्राप्ताय अर्हाम् चकार सः ह प्रातः सभागः उदेयाय तम् ह उवाच मानुषस्य भगवन् गौतम वित्तस्य वरम् वृणीथाः इति सः ह उवाच तव एव राजन् मानुषम् वित्तम् याम् एव कुमारस्य अन्ते वाचम् अभाषथाः ताम् एव मे ब्रूहि इति सः ह कृच्छ्री बभूव
saḥ ha gautamaḥ rājñaḥ ardham eyāya tasmai ha prāptāya arhām cakāra saḥ ha prātaḥ sabhāgaḥ udeyāya tam ha uvāca mānuṣasya bhagavan gautama vittasya varam vṛṇīthāḥ iti saḥ ha uvāca tava eva rājan mānuṣam vittam yām eva kumārasya ante vācam abhāṣathāḥ tām eva me brūhi iti saḥ ha kṛcchrī babhūva
Gautama came to the king. The king received him with honour. In the morning, when he appeared in the assembly, the king said: "Reverend Gautama, choose a gift from among human riches." He answered: "Let human riches remain with you, O king. Tell me the speech you spoke in the young man's presence." The king was at a loss.
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Uddālaka (Gautama by lineage) does what pride cannot do: a grey-haired teacher goes as a pupil to the king who shamed his son. And when the king, as custom requires, offers his brāhmaṇa guest a gift, he waves away "human riches" with one motion: "let them remain with you". He needs one treasure only — "that speech": the knowledge of the five fires and the two paths.
The king's embarrassment (kṛcchrī babhūva — "he was in difficulty") is not stinginess: he holds a vidyā that his line has handed down as a royal secret, and now for the first time a brāhmaṇa asks for it. The scene is deliberately inverted: usually a king asks of a brāhmaṇa — here a brāhmaṇa stands as petitioner before a kṣatriya. Knowledge of the soul's path stands above the partitions of estate, and the Upaniṣad is not shy of showing how the accustomed order of ranks collapses where the main thing is at issue.