{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe01/sbe01081.htm","path":"hin/sbe01/sbe01081.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01081.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Satyak\u00e2ma, the son of Gab\u00e2l\u00e2, addressed his mother and said: 'I wish to become a Brahmak\u00e2rin (religious student), mother. Of what family am I?'\n2. She said to him: 'I do not know, my child, of what family thou art. In my youth when I had to move about much as a servant (waiting on the guests in my father's house), I conceived thee. I do not know of what family thou art. I am Gab\u00e2l\u00e2 by name, thou art Satyak\u00e2ma (Philalethes). Say that thou art Satyak\u00e2ma G\u00e2b\u00e2l\u00e2.'\n3. He going to Gautama H\u00e2ridrumata said to him, 'I wish to become a Brahmak\u00e2rin with you, Sir. May I come to you, Sir?'\n4. He said to him: 'Of what family are you, my friend?' He replied: 'I do not know, Sir, of what family I am. I asked my mother, and she answered: \"In my youth when I had to move about much as a servant, I conceived thee. I do not know of what family thou art. I am Gab\u00e2l\u00e2 by name, thou art Satyak\u00e2ma,\" I am therefore Satyak\u00e2ma G\u00e2b\u00e2l\u00e2, Sir.'\n5. He said to him: 'No one but a true Br\u00e2hmana would thus speak out. Go and fetch fuel, friend, I shall initiate you. You have not swerved from the truth.'\nHaving initiated him, he chose four hundred lean and weak cows, and said: 'Tend these, friend.'\nHe drove them out and said to himself, 'I shall not return unless I bring back a thousand.' He dwelt a number of years (in the forest), and when the cows had become a thousand,\n60:1 This carries on the explanation of the four feet of Brahman, as first mentioned in III, 18, x. Each foot or quarter of Brahman is represented as fourfold, and the knowledge of these sixteen parts is called the Shodasakal\u00e2vidy\u00e2.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 1 (SBE01): Kh\u00e2ndogya Upanishad: IV, 4","type":"page"}