A story from the Chhandogya Upanishad.

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." ......................................

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.............................. ...............................

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....