The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter V
Yajnavalkya and Kahola
Next Kahola, the son of Kushitaka, questioned him.
"Yajnavalkya," said he, "explain to me the Brahman that
is directly and immediately perceived-the self that is
within all." "This is your self that is within all." "Which
self is within all, Yajnavalkya?" "It is that which
transcends hunger and thirst, grief, delusion, old age and
death. Having realized this Self, brahmins give up the
desire for sons, the desire for wealth and the desire for
the worlds and lead the life of religious mendicants.
That which is the desire for sons is the desire for wealth
and that which is the desire for wealth is the desire for
the worlds; for both these are but desires. Therefore a
brahmin, after he is done with scholarship, should try to
live on that strength which comes of scholarship. After
he is done with that strength and scholarship, he
becomes meditative and after he is done with both
meditativeness and non-meditativeness, he becomes a
knower of Brahman. "How does the knower of Brahman
behave? Howsoever he may behave, he is such indeed.
Everything else but this is perishable." Thereupon
Kahola, the son of Kushitaka, held his peace.
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