In a hermitage deep in the forest lived the learned
sage, Uddalaka Aruni with his son Shvetketu. When Shvetketu came of age, his
father sent him to an Ashram for his education as was customary in those days.
When Shvetketu returned home after twelve years of education, Uddalaka asked
him, "What did you learn while in the Ashram, my son?""I learned
everything that can be known, father," Shvetketu answered.When he heard
this, Uddalaka became silent and thought, "What pride! Such conceit is
born only out of ignorance. My son has not yet grasped the essence of the
supreme knowledge of Brahman which brings humility."Shvetketu observed the
change that came over his father and inquired, "Why did you become so
quiet, father?"
"Dear son," replied Uddalaka, "You say
that you know everything that can be known. Then you must know that knowledge
or wisdom by which what is unknown becomes known and what is unseen becomes
seen?"
"No, I don’t," replied Shvetketu. "But
please, father, tell me about it."
Uddalaka lovingly said, "Well son, look at those
pots and toys. They are made of clay. The potter takes a lump of clay and makes
all kinds of different shapes out of it. So by knowing one lump of clay, one
can know everything that is made of clay!"
"This is true for everything, son,"
continued Uddalaka, "If you know the fundamental structure of gold, you
will also know all the ornaments made out of it. If you know a piece of iron,
you know all the utensils made of iron."
To make things clearer for his son, Uddalaka headed
towards the river while continuing his conversation, "Therefore, my child,
you must get to know the essence of all things, the One that exists in
everything in this Universe, the great power of Brahman."
"It is that same power which guides the river
from the hills to flow into the ocean. That power then causes the water in the
ocean to evaporate and form clouds which will produce rain to replenish the
river, thus completing the cycle."
Pointing towards a tree which was chopped down by a
woodcutter, Uddalaka said, "Take for example that tree over there. The
sap, which is it’s life and enabled it to draw sustenance from the earth, is
leaking out of it."
"Can you tell that one of the branches of the
tree is dead?" questioned Uddalaka. "Each branch of that tree if
deprived of the sap, which is it’s life, will dry up. And when the entire tree
is drained of the sap, the whole tree will die."
While Uddalaka and Shvetketu were talking, they saw a
dead body carried by a group of people for cremation. Uddalaka pointed towards
the dead body and spoke to his son, "Similarly, my son, when life forsakes
the body, the body dies, but the life itself does not die."
The son looked puzzled when Uddalaka explained,
"My son, that which does not die is called the Atman and you are that
Atman. The Atman is all pervasive and is present in everything that you see,
living or nonliving."Uddalaka Teaching His Son the essence of Knowledge
"Why can’t I see this Atman which is all
pervasive and in everything?" Asked Shvetketu.
To explain this, Uddalaka asked his son to bring a
fruit which was hanging from a Banyan tree (a tree common in India which gives
plenty of shade and bears small fruits).
Shvetketu picked a fruit from the tree and brought it
to his father.
"Break it, son, and look inside," suggested
Uddalaka.
"What do you see?" Uddalaka questioned.
"Tiny seeds, father," replied Shvetketu.
"Do you see anything inside?" asked
Uddalaka.
"No! There is nothing there" responded
Shvetketu.
"If there is nothing inside," said Uddalaka,
"Then how can that tiny seed gives rise to this huge Banyan tree? That,
Shvetketu, is the Atman, the essence of all things. The Atman pervades the
universe, and, my son, you are a part of that universe."
"Well father, if we cannot see the essence, how
do we know that it exists?" said Shvetketu with a puzzled mind.
"I shall explain that to you, my son"
affirmed Uddalaka. "First put some water in that pitcher."
"Now bring some salt and put the salt in the
water," instructed the father. Shvetketu did as his father asked.
"Keep the pitcher aside for now," said
Uddalaka, "And bring it to me tomorrow morning."
Early the next morning, Shvetketu went to his father
with the pitcher of water.
"Can you see the salt?" asked Uddalaka.
Shvetketu searched, and of course, the salt was no
longer visible.
Shvetketu said, "No, father, it must be dissolved
in the water."
"Now taste it from the top," instructed
Uddalaka.
Shvetketu dipped his finger into the water and tasted
the water from the top.
Uddalaka blessing his son Shvetaketu"It is
salty," Shvetketu said.
"Now taste the water from the bottom," said
Uddalaka.
"It’s salty there too, father" answered
Shvetketu.
"Similarly, Shvetketu, as you cannot see the
salt, you cannot see the essence. But it is always present everywhere."
Finally Uddalaka concluded, "My son, this
omnipresent essence is called the Atman, which pervades everything. You too are
that, Oh Shvetketu."
"I am grateful father," said Shvetketu and
touched his father’s feet. "You have helped me gain the knowledge with
which the unknown becomes known, the unseen becomes seen."
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I have read a lot and tried to read into some deeper
meaning of the stories from Chandyoga Upanishada and our past. Except for the
Maruti Stotra nothing comes close to a scientific angle. Unfortunately my
learned friends and teachers have been too dogmatic to their approach of
oblique thinking. Now I feel these stories do not go to the root of the actual
answers. Answers which can be validated by scientific fact and thinking out of
the box. They are mostly philosophic expositions of intellectuals. When I
related some of our epics to the translations of the Hieroglyphic stone tablets
of Sumer, more than 30 thousand years old, so also the tribal evolutions in the
bowel of civilization which is Kenya, I found startling similarities in the
basic line around which these stories were woven..............................
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THE SIXTH TABLET OF SUMER TRANSLATED
To create a Primitive Worker, by the mark of our
essence to fashion him! (Genetically Engineer)So was Enki to the leaders
saying.The Being that we need, it already exists!Thus did Enki to them a secret
of the Abzu reveal.With astonishment did the other leaders Enki's words hear;
by the words they were fascinated.Creatures in the Abzu there are, Enki was
saying, that walk erect on two legs,Their forelegs they use as arms, with hands
they are provided.Among the animals of the steppe they live. They know not
dressing in garments,They eat plants with their mouths, they drink water from
lake and ditch.Shaggy with hair is their whole body, their head hair is like a
lion's;With gazelles they jostle, with teeming creatures in the waters they
delight!The leaders to Enki's words with amazement listened.No creature like
that has ever in the Edin been seen! Enlil, disbelieving, said.Aeons ago, on
Nibiru, our predecessors like that might have been! Ninmah was saying.It is a
Being, not a creature!Ninmah was saying. To behold it must be a thrill!
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To the House of Life Enki led them; in strong cages
there were some of the beings.At the sight of Enki and the others they jumped
up, with fists on the cage bars they werebeating.
They were grunting and snorting; no words were they
speaking.Male and female they are! Enki was saying; malehoods and femalehoods
they have,Like us, from Nibiru coming, they are procreating.Ningishzidda, my
son, their Fashioning Essence (DNA) has tested;Akin to ours it is, like two
serpents it is entwined; (DNA structure)When their with our life essence shall
be combined (genetic Engineering), our mark upon them shall be,A Primitive
Worker shall be created! Our commands will he understand,Our tools he will handle,
the toil in the excavations he shall perform;To the Anunnaki in the Abzu relief
shall come! Remember Kunti and the Pandavas? Heres an extract from the stone
tablets of Sumer as to how our race was enginered from Homus Erectus. From the
ME formulas of Nibiru's essence only bit by bit could be attempted!In a crystal
vessel Ninmah an admixture was preparing, the oval of a female two-leggedshe
gently placed,With ME Anunnaki seed containing, she the oval impregnated;That
oval back into the womb of the two-legged female she inserted.This time there
was conceiving, a birth was indeed forthcoming!The allotted time for
birth-giving the leaders awaited, with anxious hearts they resultswere
seeking.The allotted time arrived, there was no birth-giving!In desperation
Ninmah a cutting made, that which was conceived with tongs she drewout.
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A living being it was!With glee Enki Shouted.
We attained! Ningishzidda with joy cried out.In her
hands Ninmah the newborn held, with joy she was not filled:Shaggy with hair all
over was the newborn, his foreparts like of the Earth creatures were,His
hindparts to those of the Anunnaki more akin they were.They let the two-legged
female the newborn nurse, with her milk him to suckle.Fast was the newborn
growing, what on Nibiru a day was, a month in the Abzu was.Taller the Earth
child grew, in the image of the Anunnaki he was not;His hands for tools were
not suited, his speech only grunting sounds was!We must try once more! Ninmah
was saying. The admixture needs adjusting;Let me the ME's assay, with this or
that ME make the endeavor!With Enki and Ningishzidda assisting, they repeated
the procedures,The essences in the ME's Ninmah carefully considered,One bit she
took from one, one bit she took out from another,Then in the crystal bowl the
oval of an Earth female she inseminated.There was conception, at the
appropriate time there was birth-givingThis one more in the likeness of the
Anunnaki was;
They let his birth mother him suckle, they let the
newborn to a child grow.Appealing he was by his looks, his hands to hold tools
were shapen;His senses they tested, they found there deficient:The Earth child
could not hear, his eyesight was faltered.Again and again Ninmah rearranged the
admixtures, of the MEformulas she took bits and pieces;One Being had paralyzed
feet, another his semen was dripping,
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One had trembling hands, a malfunctioning liver had
another;One had hands too short to reach the mouth, one had lungs for breathing
unsuited.Enki by the results was disappointed. A Primitive Worker is not
attained! to Ninmah hewas saying.What is good or is bad in this Being by trials
I am discovering!Ninmah to Enki responded. To continue for success my heart
prompts me!Once more an admixture she made, once more the newborn was
deficient.Perchance the shortfall is not in the admixture! Enki to her was
saying.Perchance neither in the female's oval nor in the essences is the
hindrance?Of what the Earth itself is fashioned, perchance that is what is
missingNot of Nibiru's crystals use the vessel, of the clay of Earth make it!So
was Enki, with great wisdom possessed, to Ninmah saying.Perchance what is
Earth's own admixture, of gold and copper, is required!Thus was Enki, he who
knows things, prompting her to use clay of the Abzu.In the House of Life Ninmah
made a vessel, of the Abzu's clay she made it.As a purifying bath she shaped
the vessel, within it to make the admixture.Gently into the clay vessel the
oval of an Earth female, the two-legged, she put,The life essence from an
Anunnaki's blood extracted she in the vessel placed,By the ME formulas was the
essence directed, bit by correct bit was it in the vesseladded,
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Then the oval thus fertilized into the womb of the
Earth female she inserted.
There is conception! Ninmah with joy announced. The
allotted birth-giving time theyawaited.At the allotted time the Earth female
began to travail,A child, a newborn, was forthcoming!With her hands Ninmah the
newborn extracted; a male it was!In her hands she held the child, his image she
examined; it was the image of perfection.In her hands she held up the newborn;
Enki and Ningishzidda were present.With joyful laughter the three leaders were
seized,Enki and Ningishzidda were backslapping, Ninmah Enki embraced and
kissed.Your hands have made it! Enki, with a gleaming eye, to her was
saying.They let the birth-giving mother the newborn suckle; quicker than a
child on Nibirugrows he was growing.From month to month the newborn progressed,
from a baby to a child he was becoming.His limbs for the tasks were suited,
speech he knew not,Of speaking he had no understanding, grunts and snorts were
his utterings!Enki the matter was pondering, what was done each step and
admixture he considered.Of all that we had tried and changed, one thing was
never altered! to Ninmah he wassaying:Into the womb of the Earth female the
fertilized oval was always inserted;Perchance this is the remaining
obstruction! Thus was Enki saying.Ninmah at Enki gazed, with bewilderment she
him beheld.
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What, in truth, are you saying? Of him she an answer
required.Of the birth-giving womb am I speaking! to her Enki was responding.Of
who the fertilized oval nurtures, to birth-giving carries;In our image and
after our likeness to be, perchance an Anunnaki womb is required!In the House
of Life there was silence; words never before heard Enki was uttering!They
gazed at each other, about what in each other's mind they were thinking.Wise
are your words, my brother! Ninmah at long last was saying.Perchance the right
admixture in the wrong womb was inserted;Now where is the female among the
Anunnaki her womb to offer,Perchance the perfect Primitive Worker to create,
perchance a monster in her belly tocarry?So was Ninmah with a trembling voice
saying.Let me of Ninki, my spouse, of that inquire! Enki was saying.Let us her
to the House of Life summon, the matter before her lay outHe was turning to
depart when Ninmah put her hand on his shoulder:No! No! to Enki she was
saying.The admixtures by me were made, reward and endangerment should be mine!I
shall be the one the Anunnaki womb to provide, for good or evil fate to
face!Enki bowed his head, gently he embraced her. So be it! to her he said.In
the clay vessel the admixture they made,The oval of an Earth female with
Anunnaki male essence they put together;The fertilized egg into the womb of
Ninmah by Enk was inserted; there was conception!138The pregnancy, by an
admixture conceived, how long will it last? toeach other they wondered.Will it
be nine months of Nibiru, will it be nine months of Earth?Longer than on Earth,
quicker than on Nibiru, travail came; to a male childNinmah birth was
giving!Enki the boy child held in his hands; the image of perfection he was.He
slapped the newborn on his hindparts; the newborn uttered proper sounds!He
handed the newborn to Ninmah; she held him up in her hands.
My hands have made it! victoriously she shouted.Now
this is the account of how Adamu (Adam in the Bible) by name was called,And how
Ti-Amat (Eve in the Bible) as a counterpart female for him was fashioned.The
newborn's visage and limbs the leaders carefully examined:Of good shape were
his ears, his eyes were not clogged,His limbs were proper, hindparts like legs,
foreparts like hands were shaped.Shaggy like the wild ones he was not, dark
black his head hair was,Smooth was his skin, smooth as the Anunnaki skin it
was,Like dark red blood was its color, like the clay of the Abzu was its
hue.They looked at his malehood: Odd was its shape, by a skin was its forepart
surrounded,Unlike that of Anunnaki malehood it was, a skin from its forepart
was hanging!Let the Earthling from us Anunnaki by this foreskin be
distinguished! So was Enkisaying.The newborn to cry was beginning; to her chest
Ninmah closely drew him;Her breast to him she gave; the breast he began to
suckle.139Perfection we did attain! Ningishzidda with elation was saying.Enki
at his sister was gazing; a mother and son, not Ninmah and a Being, he was
seeing.A name will you give him? Enki inquired. A Being he is, not a
creature!Ninmah cast her hand upon the newborn's body, with her fingers his
dark red skin shecaressed.Adamu I shall call him! Ninmah was saying. One Who
Like Earth's Clay Is, that will be his name! (Adam in the bible part of genesis
1 where he did not have the power ofcreation)...........................................
The Seventh Stone tablet of Sumer they go on to say
how this power of Procreation was given to Adamu. (The Bible Genesis 2) Kunti
in the Mahabharata? More learning and reading is required....
