| He pervades it
all. He is the destroyer of all. He is full of perfect qualities. O Svetaketu, you are not
that God. Svetaketu asked, "Sire, please teach
me more."
Uddalaka said, "The bees, my child, collect the honey from different flowers and mix
them in the hive. Now, honeys of different flowers cannot know one from the other.
"My child, the rivers that run in the different
directions rise from the sea and go back to the sea. Yet the sea remains the same. The
rivers, while in the sea, cannot identify themselves as one particular river or another.
So also creatures that have come from Sat know not that they have come from that Sat,
although they become one or the other again and again." |
