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Therefore, the first boon that I shall ask, is, may that Brahmana's adorations to Agni be not interrupted! The Yaksha said, 'O Kunti's son endued with splendour, it was I who for examining thee, was carrying away, in the guise of a deer, that Brahmana's fire-sticks!" That is, tranquillity of mind, self-restraint, abstention from sensual pleasures, resignation, and Yoga meditation.
And what is more numerous than grass? Yudhishthira answered, 'The mother is weightier than the earth; the father is higher than the heaven; the mind is fleeter than the wind; and our thoughts are more numerous than grass. The Yaksha asked, 'What is that which doth not close its eyes while asleep; What is that which doth not move after birth? What is that which is without heart?
Therefore, let one only amongst thy brothers, whom thou mayst wish, get up with life! Yudhishthira answered, 'Let this one that is of darkish hue, whose eyes are red, who is tall like a large Sala tree, whose chest is broad and arms long, let this Nakula, O Yaksha, get up with life! The Yaksha rejoined, 'This Bhimasena is dear unto thee, and this Arjuna also is one upon whom all of you depend!
She whom a Yaksha for Bhishma's destruction metamorphosed into a male, with that formidable bowman will the Pandavas fight against you. With those mighty bowmen, brothers all, those five Kekaya princes, with those heroes clad in mail will the Pandavas fight against you.
Therefore, let one only amongst thy brothers, whom thou mayst wish, get up with life! Yudhishthira answered, 'Let this one that is of darkish hue, whose eyes are red, who is tall like a large Sala tree, whose chest is broad and arms long, let this Nakula, O Yaksha, get up with life! The Yaksha rejoined,-'This Bhimasena is dear unto thee, and this Arjuna also is one upon whom all of you depend!
And what is that which sacrifice cannot do without? Yudhishthira answered, 'Life is the Sama of the sacrifice; the mind is the Yajus of the sacrifice: the Rik is that which is the refuge of the sacrifice; and it is Rik alone which sacrifice cannot do without. The Yaksha asked, 'What is of the foremost value to those that cultivate? What is of the foremost value to those that sow?
A Sraddha that is performed with the aid of a priest that hath no learning may be regarded as dead. And a sacrifice in which there are no gifts to Brahmanas is dead. The Yaksha asked, 'What constitutes the way? What, hath been spoken of as water? What, as food? And what, as poison?
And what hath been called simplicity? Yudhishthira answered, 'True knowledge is that of Divinity. True tranquillity is that of the heart. Mercy consists in wishing happiness to all. And simplicity is equanimity of heart. The Yaksha asked, 'What enemy is invincible? What constitutes an incurable disease for man?
As long as that report lasteth, so long is a person to whom the agreeable and the disagreeable, weal and woe, the past and the future, are the same, is said to possess every kind of wealth. The Yaksha said, 'Thou hast, O king truly answered who is a man, and what man possesseth every kind of wealth.
And, O bull of the Bharata race, sorely afflicted with thirst, he discharged barbed darts and javelins and iron arrows, and showered on the sky innumerable shafts incapable of being baffled. Thereupon, the invisible Yaksha said, 'What need of all this trouble, O son of Pritha? Do thou drink only after answering my questions!
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