Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.19
English (machine translation) 1.19
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1.19
By the breath both speech and mind are bound; for with a rope one binds both calf and mother. Regarding this, Janaka of Videha asked Yājñavalkya: 'Do you know the fire-offering, Yājñavalkya?' 'I know it,' he said. 'What [is the offering material]?' 'Milk,' he said. 'If there should be no milk, with what would you offer?' 'With rice and barley,' he said. 'If there should be no rice and barley, with what would you offer?' 'With whatever other grain there is,' he said. 'If there should be no other grain, with what would you offer?' 'With wild plants,' he said. 'If there should be no wild plants, with what would you offer?' 'With water,' he said. 'If there should be no water, with what would you offer?' He said: 'Nothing at all would exist here then; yet this would still be offered, as it were—truth in faith.' He said to him: 'You know the fire-offering, Yājñavalkya. Homage be to you! We give a thousand [cows], venerable sir.' Then he sang to him: 'What, indeed, knowing does he dwell away from—'
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'—the fire-offerer, from his home?'
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'How is that his poetic wisdom, how is he continuous with the fires?'
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'Having established the fires, if he then journeys away, how does he remain not having journeyed away?'
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The Vājasaneya said:
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'He who is swiftest among the beings, knowing that while journeying away, he knows [the rite].'
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