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Plain text of Seventh Prapathaka · Second Khanda

7.2.1 "Speech, assuredly, is more than name. Speech, verily, makes known the Rig, the Yajur, the Sama, the Atharva as the fourth, Legend and Ancient Lore as the fifth, Grammar, Mathematics, Chronology, Logic, Polity, the Science of Sacred Knowledge, Military Science, and the Fine Arts, as well as heaven and earth, wind and space, water and heat, angels and men, beasts and birds, grass and trees, animals together with worms, flies, and ants, right and wrong, true and false, good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant. Verily, if there were no speech, neither right nor wrong would be known, neither true nor false, neither good nor bad, neither pleasant nor unpleasant. Speech, indeed, makes all this known. Honor speech as a gift of God.

7.2.2 He who honors speech as a gift of God, as far as speech goes, so far he has freedom, he who honors speech as a gift of God."

"Is there, Sir, more than speech?"

"There is, assuredly, more than speech."

"Do you, Sir, tell me it."