The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

Himself and who is at the same time transcendental.
"If you cannot clearly explain Him to me, your head
shall fall off?' Sakalya did not know Him; his
head fell off; and robbers snatched away his bones,
mistaking them for something else.
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Then Yajnavalkya said: "Venerable brahmins,
whosoever among you wishes to question me may
now do so, or all of you may. Or whosoever among
you desires it, I shall question him, or I shall
question all of you. But the brahmins did not dare.
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Yajnavalkya interrogated them with the following
verses:
1. As is a mighty tree, so indeed is a man: this is
true. His hairs are the leaves and his skin is the outer
bark.
2. From his skin blood flows and from the bark, sap.
Therefore when a man is Wounded blood flows, as sap
from a tree that is injured.
3. His flesh is its inner bark and his nerves are its
innermost layer of bark, which is tough. His bones lie
within, as does the wood of the tree. His marrow
resembles the pith.
4. A tree, when it is felled, springs again from its
root in a new form; from what root, tell me, does a man
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