The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c6.s3.t7.4

c6.s3.t7.4

(Brih. 3, 5:) “Then asked him Kahola, the descendant of “Kushîtaka. ‘Yâjñavalkya,’ said he, ‘even that immanent, “non-transcendent Brahman, which as soul is innermost of “all, that shalt thou declare to me.’—‘It is thy soul which “is innermost of all.’—‘Which, o Yâjñavalkya, is innermost “of all.’—‘That which overcomes hunger and thirst, affliction “and madness, age and death.—Truly, after they have found “[Caṅk.: recognised] this soul, the Brahmans cease from long“ing after children, and longing after possession, and longing “after the world, and wander about as beggars. For the “longing after children is a longing after possessions, and “the longing after possessions is a longing after the world; “for both are mere longings.—Therefore after the Brahman “has put off his erudition, let him abide in childlike sim“plicity; and after he has put off both his learned and his “childlike estate, then he becomes a silent one (Muni); after “he has put off keeping silence and not keeping silence, then “he becomes a Brâhmaṇa.—By what does this Brâhmaṇa