The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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The mind went out. After being absent for a whole year
it came back and said: "How have you been able to live
without me?" The other organs said: "We lived just as
idiots live, without knowing through the mind, but living
through the vital breath, speaking through the organ of
speech, seeing through the eye, hearing through the ear
and procreating through the organ of generation." Then
the mind entered the body.
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Then the organ of generation went out. After being
absent for a whole year it came back and said: "How
have you been able to live without me?" The other
organs said: "We lived just as impotent people live,
without procreating children through the organ of
generation, but living through the vital breath, speaking
through the organ of speech, seeing through the eye,
hearing through the ear and knowing through the mind."
Then the organ of generation entered the body.
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Then as the vital breath was about to depart, it uprooted
the organs from their places just as a great, noble horse
of the Sindhu country tears up the pegs to which his feet
are tied.
They said: "Venerable Sir, please do not go out. We
shall not be able to live without you."
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