Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 3, Brahmana 7. Uddalaka: the inner controller, the antaryamin
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
He who dwells in the quarters
He who dwells in the quarters, yet is within the quarters, whom the quarters do not know, whose body is the quarters, who controls the quarters from within: he is your Self, the inner controller, the immortal.
The teaching applied to the directions or quarters (dish): the inner controller abides in the quarters yet is inward to them, unknown to them, having the quarters as his body, ruling them from within. He is your immortal Self (atman).
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The inner controller indwells and governs the directions from within, unknown to them, the same immortal Self pervading the regions of space.