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'Man (purusha), my son, consists of sixteen parts. Abstain from food for fifteen days, but drink as much water as you…
Svetaketu abstained from food for fifteen days. Then he came to his father and said: 'What shall I say?' The father s…
The father said to him: 'As of a great lighted fire one coal only of the size of a firefly may be left, which would n…
'Then wilt thou understand me.' Then Svetaketu ate, and afterwards approached his father. And whatever his father ask…
'As of a great lighted fire one coal of the size of a firefly, if left, may be made to blaze up again by putting gras…
'Thus, my dear son, there was one part of the sixteen parts left to you, and that, lighted up with food, burnt up, an…