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"""DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 59the AtmanManyhence of the falsity of the world,thehas never been totally given up later on.Certainly it has been gradually obscured thoughat the same time shining through byits inherentlight by the hugemass of more realistic or antiidealisticnotions. Such conceptions we may haveoccasion to refer to briefly later on. We hastennow to show how this supreme monistic conceptionruns through the other Upanisads like a stringthrough the beads of a garland.Turning to the Chandogya Up., we at once meetwith the famous dialogue between Aruni and hisson, Svetaketu. The son havingstudied all theVedas, etc., for twelve years with his teacher,returned to his father a swollen-headed youngscholar. The father tested his knowledge by askinghim if he knew anything about that by which allthat is unheard becomes heard and the unknownbecomes the known, etc. The son, failing to answer,requests his father to explain to him that knowledge, and the sage Aruni teaches Svetaketu bythe following concrete examplesyatha somya ekena mrtpindena sarvam mrnmayamvijnatam syad vacarambhanam vikaro namadheyam mrttiketyeva satyam. Chan. Up. vi. i. 4.*1 Cf. the same idea in different similes in the followingtwo mantras, Chan. Up. vi. i. 5-6.