| Volume - IX |
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| Culture Course |
YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI |
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| YOU have read
in an earlier book the story of Rishi Yajnavalkya. As you know, the rishi had two wives: Maitreyi and Katyayani. The former were learned in the Sastras and she was a seeker after Self-knowledge or the Atman. Katyayani, on the other hand, was an ordinary housewife doing the household chores. One day the rishi called Maitreyi and said: "My dear, I have decided to renounce life and become a sanyasi. Before I do so, I want to make a settlement of my properties between you and Katyayani." Maitreyi said, "I understand your anxiety; but Lord, will that wealth or, for that matter, the wealth of the entire world given to me, give me Atma-gnana or Self-knowledge?" |
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