Yājñavalkya recounts his own journey to Brahmā: he went, praised with hymns, prostrated, and asked the very same question Gārgī is now asking. This creates a lineage of transmission — Brahmā → Yājñavalkya → Gārgī — and validates Gārgī’s question as the right question, the one that every genuine seeker eventually asks. It also positions Yājñavalkya not as the originator but as a link in a chain of revelation.