Mind comes from food, breath from water

Aruni asked his son Svetaketi, “My dear son, do not eat anything for next sixteen days but you are allowed to drink water as much as you can.”

The Svetaketi did what his father said and return back to his father and asked, “Now what should I do?”

Aruni, “Repeat all three Vedas which you learn in 12 years.”

Svetaketi replied, “I really unable to recite any Vedas.”

Aruni said,” As there is fire because of coal and when coal burns, fire emerge in the same way there is no coal left in you to burn the fire of knowledge and therefore as coal is important to fire so the food is important for the body.”

The father asked his son to eat food and return back to his father and recited all Vedas.

Aruni,” As of a great lighted fire, coal is required therefore my dear son, there was one part of the sixteen parts left to you and that lighted up with food and when you have your food, you remember the Vedas.”

“Mind my son, comes from food, breath from water, speech from fire, Those who understood this, they understood all of it.”

Aruni advanced, “As the bees make honey by collecting juices of different flowers and reduce the juice into the form of honey. And when the honey is prepared, there is no differentiation from which flower the juice they gathered and in the same way, all these creatures, when they merged through sleep or death become one as different juices of different flowers become one like honey.”

“Whatever the creatures are here on this earth, whether a lion or a wolf or even a worm or a gnat or an ant, they all become one and one again. The subtle essence in all exists which is the ‘self’ and this self is the only truth.”

“There are several rivers that run towards east like Ganges or towards west like of Sindhu. The water of these rivers goes from sea to sea as the clouds lift up the water and from the sea, it went to sky and send it back to rivers through rain. In the same way the water which flowed in the river and went into the sea do not know that it is either a river or a sea.”   

“In the same manner, all these creatures, when they have come back from the true, know not what they have come back from the true. Whatever are here, these creatures, whether a lion or an ant that they become again and again. The subtle essence in all that made becoming and non-becoming and that is only the truth.”  

(Upnishads started a trend of communication of storytelling and through these stories, Upnishads tried to make the essence of Vedas understand. These are some short stories from Khandogya Upnishad , Sama Veda from different khands)

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