Upanishads · Chāndogya 6,7.4
॥
Devanāgarī
सः ह आश अथ ह एनम् उपससाद तम् ह यत् किं च पप्रच्छ सर्वम् ह प्रतिपेदे
Transliteration (IAST)
saḥ ha āśa atha ha enam upasasāda tam ha yat kiṃ ca papraccha sarvam ha pratipede
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
सःsaḥhe; that one
हhaindeed; surely
आशāśahe ate; he had eaten
अथathathereupon; then
हhaindeed; surely
एनम्enamit; of this
उपससादupasasādaapproached; approached
तम्tamit; that one
हhaindeed; surely
यत्yatwhich; that which
किंkiṃwhat; which
चcaand; as well as
पप्रच्छpapracchahe asked (perfect of √prach); he enquired; he put questions
सर्वम्sarvamall; entirely
हhaindeed; surely
प्रतिपेदेpratipedehe answered (prati + √pad — 'to cope, to reply'); he resolved them; he answered them all
Translation
He ate — and came to his father. And whatever his father asked him, he answered it all.
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The verification in reverse: after eating, he "answered it all". The bonfire of the mind blazed up at the first food, and the Vedas came back as a flame comes back to coals doused with butter. The experiment is closed at both ends: hunger extinguishes, food kindles — the table of the three compositions is proved on a living mind.
Śvetaketu now knows about himself what twelve years of school do not give: his brilliant mind is a guest who arrives with dinner. Whoever has once seen his own thinking put out and lit again is cured forever of identifying himself with his mind — and is ready to hear who in him does not go out.