( 46 ) and devoted and enthusiastic services to him self, all these combined in making the guru not only extremely kind to him but quite prepared to teach him all the time of the day and all that he knew so that he would become a consummate scholar and that in as short a time as possible. What others would require forty-eight ycars to learn Svetaketu | earned n twelve years and returned home, fl: of pride as if he was the most learned in the world and there was nothing more to be learnt by him. This lack of virtuethis pride and impudence on the part of his SOn pained again Uddalaka. He asked—Boy, you seem to think that your learning is perfect. But did you seck to learn that commander, to know whom is to know all ?” This idea was quite new to Svetaketu, so new that he thought that such a thingsuch a com mander. could never exist : f*To know one 1s to know all ! No; there is no possibility for such an entity. So he put the question to his father : "Revered sir. how is that commander ?” : The kind father, in order to help his son conceive that strange and important concept and convince him about it mentioned three instances. The first was clay. Take a mass of | clay, of । which several things are made, viz. pot and other vessels or some other things : All these things remain even then clay as they were originally. When it lay as a mere mass the clay had no different forms or names but when several things are made out of it, it is that very clay that has taken those many forms and names, in order to serve different purposes which a mere mass
