Gargi Vachaknavi
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Sep 9, 2026
BinduHOST
If you do not do it, it will be the greatest loss.
BinduHOST
And in the Brihadaranya Upanishad, Yajnavalkya says to Gargi, A person who does not realize Atman here in this life, He is biggest miser of the whole world or the whole humanity.
BinduHOST
There cannot be a bigger miser than him.
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Kripana
Alok PandeyHOST
The story for example of Yagyavalk and his two wives.
Alok PandeyHOST
So Maitri and Gargi.
Alok PandeyHOST
So once he says I am going to forest because I want to engage deeper into meditation.
Alok PandeyHOST
So I want to be all alone.
Alok PandeyHOST
Good choice.
Alok PandeyHOST
But he divides his Katiayani and sorry Katiayani and Gargi.
Alok PandeyHOST
Gargi is his friend.
Alok PandeyHOST
So he divides into equally.
Jyoti TharanathNARRATOR
After that, Kahola Kaushitakaya held his peace.
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Sixth Brahmana Then Gargi Vachaknavi asked, Yajnavalkya, she said, everything here is woven like warp and woof in water.
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What then is that in which water is woven like warp and woof? In air, O Gargi, he replied.
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In what then is air woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of the sky, O Gargi, he replied.
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In what then are the worlds of the sky woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of the Gandharvas, O Gargi, he replied.
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In what then are the worlds of the Gandharvas woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of Aditya, sun, O Gargi, he replied.
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In what then are the worlds of Aditya, sun, woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of Chandra, moon, O Gargi, he replied.
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In what then are the worlds of Chandra, moon, woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of the Nakshatras, stars, O Gargi, he replied.
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This self is the Absolute, the consciousness of all.
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O Gargi! This immutable one is the unseen seer, the unheard hearer, the unthought thinker, the unknown knower; there is no seer beside this, no hearer beside this, no thinker, no knower beside this.
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In this immutable essence, O dear Gargi! Is interwoven the essence of all existence.
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He [Yajnavalkya] said: O Gargi! The knowers of the Absolute thus explain the ever immutable.
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It is neither with dimensions nor atomic, neither short nor long.
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It is not red, not sticky, not light, not dark, neither air, nor ether.
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None, O Maitreya! will know it, if intent on the pleasures of sex and stomach.
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I am Brahman, I am the creator; those who do not thus know me, are lost to wisdom as also to the purifying forms of external worship; they are on the highway to materialistic atheism.
Jyoti TharanathNARRATOR
Sixth Brahmana.
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Then Gargi Vachaknavi asked, Yajnavalkya, she said, everything here is woven like warp and woof in water.
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What then is that in which water is woven like warp and woof? "In air, O Gargi," he replied.
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"In what then is air woven like warp and woof?" "In the worlds of the sky, O Gargi," he replied.
Jyoti TharanathNARRATOR
"In what then are the worlds of the sky woven like warp and woof?" "In the worlds of the Gandharvas, O Gargi," he replied.
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"In what then are the worlds of the Gandharvas woven like warp and woof?" "In the worlds of Aditya, Sun, O Gargi," he replied.
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"In what then are the worlds of Aditya, Sun, woven like warp and woof?" "In the worlds of Chandra, Moon, O Gargi," he replied.
Jyoti TharanathNARRATOR
"In what then are the worlds of Chandra, Moon, woven like warp and woof?" "In the worlds of the Nakshatras, stars, O Gargi," he replied.
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Kaushitakeya held his peace.
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Sixth Brahmana Then Gargi Vajaknavi asked,
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Yagnavalkya, she said, everything here is woven like warp and woof in water.
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What then is that in which water is woven like warp and woof? In air, O Gargi, he replied, in what then is
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air woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of the sky, O Gargi, he replied.
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In what then are the worlds of the sky woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of the Gandharvas, O Gargi, he replied.
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In what then are the worlds of the Gandharvas woven like warp and woof? In the worlds of Aditya, son, O Gargi, he replied.
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in what then are the worlds of aditya sun woven like warp and woof in the worlds of chandra moon o gargi he replied in what then are the worlds of chandra moon woven like warp and