'You eat food, and see your desire (a son, &c), and whoever thus meditates on that Vaisvânara Self, eats food, sees his desire, and has Vedic glory (arising from study and sacrifice) in his house. That, however, is but the head of the Self, and thus your head would have fallen (in a discussion), if you had not come to me.'

In plain words: The king says that worshipping heaven brings food, the things one wishes for, and religious honor to one's home. But heaven is only the head of the universal Self. Seeing only one part could have led Aupamanyava to disaster, and coming to learn more saved him.