CHHANDOGYOPANISHAD

Chemical and other "laws" are only classifications and simplifications of observed phenomena, and nothing more. Neither familiarity nor classification can itself be explanation. The unexplained factor outside the cave that permanently circumscribes our knowledge is the Sat of the Chhandogya.

"How can this vast universe with its multitudinous variety be produced in this simple way?" asked Svetaketu, whom his father, Uddalaka, was instructing as to how the entire world has been evolved out of the Sat.

"Fetch a fruit of the big fig tree," said Uddalaka

"Here is one, Sir," said Svetaketu.

"Break it, what do you see there?"

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