The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

ancestry I am. I asked my mother about it and she
replied: „In my youth I was preoccupied with many
household duties and with attending on guests when I
conceived you. I do not know of what ancestry you are.
I am Jabala by name and you are Satyakama.‟ I am
therefore, Sir, Satyakama Jabala."
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Gautama said: "None but a true brahmin would thus
speak out. Fetch the fuel, dear friend; I shall initiate you.
You have not departed from truth." He initiated
Satyakama. Having separated out four hundred lean and
weak cows from his herd, he said: "Dear friend, go with
these." Driving them away toward the forest, Satyakama
said: "I shall not return until they become a thousand."
He lived a number of years in the forest. When the cows
had become a thousand-
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