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 ॥बृह. ३,५.१ ॥
In plain words
Then Kahola Kauṣītakeya asked him. "Yājñavalkya," he said, "explain to me that Brahman which is manifest and not hidden, the Self that is within all." "This is thy Self that is within all." "Which one, Yājñavalkya, is within all?" "That which passes beyond hunger and thirst, sorrow and delusion, old age and death. Having known this Self, brahmins rise above the desire for sons, the desire for wealth and the desire for worlds, and go about begging. For the desire for sons is the desire for wealth, and the desire for wealth is the desire for worlds; both of these are but desires. Therefore let a brahmin, having done with learning, wish to live as a child; and having done with childlikeness and with learning, let him be a silent sage; and having done with what is not silence and with silence, let him be a brahmin. And how does he live as such a brahmin? However he may live, he is such as he is. Anything other than this is subject to suffering." Thereupon Kahola Kauṣītakeya fell silent.