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“What family are you from, bright one?" "Sir, I don't know. My mother says she bore me in her youth ands doesn't know my ancestry. She says that since my name is Satyakama and hers is Jabala I should call myself Satyakama Jabala." "None but a true brahmin could have said that. Fetch the firewood my boy, I will initiate you. You have not flinched from the truth” — Chandogya Upanishad, page 128 of Eknath Eswaran's translation
What family are you from, bright one?"
"Sir, I don't know. My mother says she bore me in her youth ands doesn't know my ancestry. She says that since my name is Satyakama and hers is Jabala I should call myself Satyakama Jabala."
"None but a true brahmin could have said that. Fetch the firewood my boy, I will initiate you. You have not flinched from the truth