Upaniṣads · Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.5

Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.5.1

अथ हैनं कहोलः कौषीतकेयः पप्रच्छ याज्ञवल्क्येति होवाच ।
यदेव साक्षादपरोक्षाद्ब्रह्म य आत्मा सर्वान्तरस्तं मे व्याचक्ष्वेति ।
एष त आत्मा सर्वान्तरः ।
कतमो याज्ञवल्क्य सर्वान्तरः ।
योऽशनायापिपासे शोकं मोहं जरां मृत्युमत्येति ।
एतं वै तमात्मानं विदित्वा ब्राह्मणाः पुत्रैषणायाश्च वित्तैषणायाश्च लोकैषणायाश्च व्युत्थायाथ भिक्षाचर्यं चरन्ति ।
या ह्येव पुत्रैषणा सा वित्तैषणा या वित्तैषणा सा लोकैषणा ।
उभे ह्येते एषणे एव भवतः ।
तस्माद्ब्रामणः पाण्डित्यं निर्विद्य बाल्येन तिष्ठासेत् ।
बाल्यं च पाण्डित्यं च निर्विद्याथ मुनिः ।
अमौनं च मौनं च निर्विद्याथ ब्राह्मणः ।
स ब्राह्मणः केन स्याद्येन स्यात्तेनेदृश एव ।
अतोऽन्यदार्तम् ।
ततो ह कहोलः कौषीतकेय उपरराम ॥ ३.५.१ ॥

Then Kahola, son of Kauṣītaka, asked him: "Yājñavalkya, explain to me the brahman that is direct and immediately evident, the ātman that is within all." "This is your ātman, which is within all." "Yājñavalkya, which is the one within all?" "He who passes beyond hunger and thirst, sorrow and delusion, old age and death. Having known that ātman, brahmins, rising above the desire for sons, the desire for wealth and the desire for worlds, live the life of begging. For the desire for sons is the desire for wealth, and the desire for wealth is the desire for worlds; these two desires are indeed the same. Therefore a brahmin, having cast off learning, should remain as a child. Having cast off both childhood and learning, he becomes a sage. Having cast off both silence and non-silence, he becomes a brahmin. By whatever means he becomes a brahmin, he is indeed such. Apart from this, all is distress." Then Kahola, son of Kauṣītaka, fell silent.