सः होवाच गार्ग्यः यः एव अयम् आत्मनि पुरुषः एतम् एव अहम् ब्रह्म उपास इति सः होवाच अजातशत्रुः मा म एतस्मिन् संवदिष्ठाः आत्मन्वी इति वै अहम् एतम् उपास इति सः यः एतम् एवम् उपास्ते आत्मन्वी ह भवति आत्मन्विनी ह अस्य प्रजा भवति सः ह तूष्णीम् आस गार्ग्यः
saḥ hovāca gārgyaḥ yaḥ eva ayam ātmani puruṣaḥ etam eva aham brahma upāsa iti saḥ hovāca ajātaśatruḥ mā ma etasmin saṃvadiṣṭhāḥ ātmanvī iti vai aham etam upāsa iti saḥ yaḥ etam evam upāste ātmanvī ha bhavati ātmanvinī ha asya prajā bhavati saḥ ha tūṣṇīm āsa gārgyaḥ
Gārgya said: "The person who is in the body — him I venerate as Brahman." Ajātaśatru said: "Do not speak to me of him! I venerate him as the Embodied One." He who venerates him thus becomes embodied, and his offspring are embodied. And Gārgya fell silent.
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The twelfth and last address is "the person in the body" (ātmani here means the bodily self), and the king gives the last rank: ātmanvin, "he who possesses a body-self". The dozen is exhausted: sky and elements, mirror and shadow, the sound of steps and one's own body — the scholar's whole inventory is laid out. Sa ha tūṣṇīm āsa gārgyaḥ — "and Gārgya fell silent".
That silence is the turning point of the whole conversation and one of the great images of the Upaniṣads: the place where what has been learnt by rote runs out. Gārgya came to speak — and fell silent; the line between "knowing about" and "knowing" ran right across his lips. A silence of this kind is not a defeat but a threshold: now it will appear whether the proud scholar is ready to do the one thing that opens the door further on.