The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter XIV
Dialogue between the Teacher and the Pupil
Then they (i.e. all the fires) said: "Upakosala, dear
friend, thus we taught you the knowledge of ourselves
and the knowledge of the Self. But the teacher will
teach you the way." The teacher returned and said to
him: "Upakosala!"
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He replied: "Revered Sir!"
"Dear friend, your face shines like that of one who
knows Brahman. Who has taught you?"
"Who should teach me, Sir?"
Here he conceals the fact, as it were.
And he said pointing to the fires: "For this reason they
are of this form now, though they were of a different
form before."
"Dear friend, what did they teach you?"
"This," Upakosala replied and repeated some of what the
fires had told him.
The teacher said: "They told you, dear friend, only about
the worlds, but I shall tell you about Brahman. As water
does not cling to the lotus leaf, so no evil clings to one
who knows this."
Upakosala said to him: "Revered Sir, please tell me."
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