तस्य प्राची दिक् प्राञ्चः प्राणाः दक्षिणा दिक् दक्षिणे प्राणाः प्रतीची दिक् प्रत्यञ्चः प्राणाः उदीची दिक् उदञ्चः प्राणाः ऊर्ध्वा दिक् ऊर्ध्वाः प्राणाः अवाची दिक् अवाञ्चः प्राणाः सर्वा दिशः सर्वे प्राणाः सः एषः नेति नेति आत्मा अगृह्यः न हि गृह्यते अशीर्यः न हि शीर्यते असङ्गः न हि सज्यते असितः न व्यथते न रिष्यति अभयं वै जनक प्राप्तः असि इति ह उवाच याज्ञवल्क्यः सः ह उवाच जनकः वैदेहः अभयं त्वा गच्छतात् याज्ञवल्क्य यः नः भगवन् अभयं वेदयसे नमस् ते अस्तु इमे विदेहाः अयम् अहम् अस्मि इति
tasya prācī dik prāñcaḥ prāṇāḥ dakṣiṇā dik dakṣiṇe prāṇāḥ pratīcī dik pratyañcaḥ prāṇāḥ udīcī dik udañcaḥ prāṇāḥ ūrdhvā dik ūrdhvāḥ prāṇāḥ avācī dik avāñcaḥ prāṇāḥ sarvā diśaḥ sarve prāṇāḥ saḥ eṣaḥ neti neti ātmā agṛhyaḥ na hi gṛhyate aśīryaḥ na hi śīryate asaṅgaḥ na hi sajyate asitaḥ na vyathate na riṣyati abhayaṃ vai janaka prāptaḥ asi iti ha uvāca yājñavalkyaḥ saḥ ha uvāca janakaḥ vaidehaḥ abhayaṃ tvā gacchatāt yājñavalkya yaḥ naḥ bhagavan abhayaṃ vedayase namas te astu ime videhāḥ ayam aham asmi iti
His eastern quarter is the eastern breaths, his southern quarter the southern breaths, his western the western, his northern the northern, his upper the upper, his lower the lower; all the quarters are all the breaths. And this ātman is "not so, not so": ungraspable, for it is not grasped; indestructible, for it is not destroyed; unattached, for it does not cling; unbound, it does not waver and takes no harm. "You have attained fearlessness, Janaka," said Yājñavalkya. Janaka of Videha answered: "May fearlessness be with you too, reverend sir — you have made fearlessness known to us. Homage to you! Here are the Videhas, and here am I myself [at your feet]."
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From the heart out to every side: the breaths of the subtle man are his quarters of the sky; the inner man is his own compass rose. And over this all-outspreadness comes the seal again: sa eṣa neti nety ātmā — "not so, not so", with the four glories of invulnerability (as in 3.9.26): stretched everywhere, graspable nowhere.
And then what all the speaking was for comes to pass: abhayaṁ vai janaka prāpto 'si — "you have attained fearlessness, Janaka"! Not "you have learned about fearlessness" but attained it: the sage's word hands over a state. Fearlessness (abhaya) is the Vedic name of the highest goal: fear, as we know, comes "from a second" (1.4.2), and one who has reached Him who has no second no longer knows how to be afraid.
Janaka's answer is the summit of royal discipleship: "fearlessness to you also; here are the Videhas, and here am I myself". The king gives his teacher the kingdom and himself — a gesture of complete surrender, śaraṇāgati, millennia before the word became a term of bhakti. The sage will of course not take the kingdom — but the Upaniṣad carefully preserves the gesture: one who has heard about fearlessness pays not in cows but in himself.