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Uddâlaka Âruni said to his son Svetaketu: 'Learn from me the true nature of sleep (svapna). When a man sleeps here, t…
'As a bird when tied by a string flies first in every direction, and finding no rest anywhere, settles down at last o…
'Learn from me, my son, what are hunger and thirst. When a man is thus said to be hungry, water is carrying away (dig…
And where could its root be except in food (earth)? And in the same manner, my son, as food (earth) too is an offshoo…
'When a man is thus said to be thirsty, fire carries away what has been drunk by him. Therefore as they speak of a co…
'And where could its root be except in water? As water is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. fire. As fire is an …
'Now that which is that subtile essence (the root of all), in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is …