Indra and Virochana learn the Self from Prajapati

The story, beat by beat

1. Prajapati declares that whoever finds the Self free from death and grief gains all worlds.
2. Indra from the gods and Virochana from the Asuras come separately with fuel in hand.
3. After thirty-two years he tells them the person seen in the eye is the Self.
4. They look in a pan of water, plain and then adorned, and leave satisfied.
5. Virochana teaches the Asuras that the body is the self.
6. Indra sees that such a self perishes with the body and returns.
7. After thirty-two more years he is told the dreaming self; he returns again.
8. After thirty-two more he is told dreamless sleep; he returns again.
9. After five more years, one hundred and one in all, Prajapati teaches the bodiless Self.

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