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The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Svetaketu ate and approached his father. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

whatever his father asked him, he showed that he<br />

knew it.<br />

5-6<br />

<strong>The</strong>n his father said to him: "Just as, my dear, of a great<br />

lighted fire a single coal the size of a firefly, if left, may<br />

be made to blaze up again by adding grass to it and will<br />

thus burn much more, "Even so, my dear; of your<br />

sixteen parts only one part was left and that, when<br />

strengthened by food, blazed up. With it you now<br />

remember the Vedas. <strong>The</strong>refore, my dear, the mind<br />

consists of food, the prana consists of water and speech<br />

consists of fire." After that he understood what his father<br />

said, yea, he understood it.<br />

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