The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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The king said: "Ah, those are divine boons, Gautama.
Please ask a human boon."
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Gautama said: "You know well that I have gold, cows,
horses, maidservants, retinue and apparel. Please do not
be ungenerous towards me in regard to that gift which is
plentiful, infinite and in-exhaustible." The king said:
"Then, verily, O Gautama, you should ask it in the
prescribed way." Gautama replied: "I approach you as a
disciple." The ancients used to approach a teacher
through mere declaration. So Gautama lived with the
king by merely announcing that he was a student.
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The king said: "Please do not be offended with us even
as your paternal grandfather was not offended with ours.
Before now this knowledge never rested with a brahmin.
But I shall teach it to you, for who can refuse you when
you speak like this?
"Yonder world is the sacrificial fire, the sun is its fuel,
the rays its smoke, the day its flame, the four quarters its
cinders and the intermediate quarters its sparks. In this
fire the gods offer faith as libation. Out of that offering
King Moon is born.
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