1.Ganaka Vaideha, descending from his throne, said: “I bow to you, O
Yagnavalkya, teach me.”
Yagnavalkya said: “Your Majesty, as a man who wishes to make a long
journey, would furnish himself with a chariot or a ship, thus is your
mind well furnished by these Upanishads. You are honourable, and
wealthy, you have learnt the Vedas and been told the Upanishads.
Whither then will you go when departing hence?”
Ganaka Vaideha said: “Sir, I do not know whither I shall go.”
Yagnavalkya said: “Then I shall tell you this, whither you will go.”
Ganaka Vaideha said: “Tell it, Sir.”
2. Yagnavalkya said: “That person who is in the right eye, he is
called Indha, and him who is Indha they call indeed Indra mysteriously,
for the gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident.
3. “Now that which in the shape of a person is in the right eye, is
his wife, Virâg. Their meeting place is the ether within the heart, and
their food the red lump within the heart. Again, their covering is that
which is like net-work within the heart, and the road on which they
move (from sleep to waking) is the artery that rises upwards from the
heart. Like a hair divided into a thousand parts, so are the veins of
it, which are called Hita, placed firmly within the heart. Through
these indeed that (food) flows on flowing, and he (the Taigusa)
receives as it were purer food than the corporeal Self (the Vaisvanara).
4. “His (the Taigasa's) Eastern quarter are the prânas (breath)
which go to the East;
“His Southern quarter are the prânas which go to the South;
“His Western quarter are the prânas which go to the West;
“His Northern quarter are the praiias which go to the North;
“His Upper (Zenith) quarter are the prânas which go upward;
“His Lower (Nadir) quarter are the prânas which go downward;
“All the quarters are all the prânas. And he (the Atman in that
state) can only be described by No, no! He is incomprehensible, for he
cannot be comprehended; he is undecaying, for he cannot decay; he is
not attached, for he does not attach himself; he is unbound, he does
not suffer, he does not perish. O Ganaka, you have indeed reached
fearlessness,”thus said Yagnavalkya.
Then Ganaka said: “May that fearlessness come to you also who
teachest us fearlessness. I bow to you. Here are the Videhas, and here
am I (thy slave).”