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Shvetaketu thought himself to be a ब्रह्मज्ञानिन् (brahma jnani) yet did not have a clue to the King’s questions. The King so questions his claim to be a ब्रह्मज्ञानिन् and so humiliated, Shvetaketu returns home to question his father [[Uddalaka (उद्दालक)|Uddalaka]]: ''Bhagavan, you claimed to have given me all knowledge, yet you did not?''

Shvetaketu thought himself to be a ब्रह्मज्ञानिन् (brahma jnani) yet did not have a clue to the King’s questions. The King so questions his claim to be a ब्रह्मज्ञानिन् and so humiliated, Shvetaketu returns home to question his father [[Uddalaka (उद्दालक)|Uddalaka]]: ''Bhagavan, you claimed to have given me all knowledge, yet you did not?''

Shvetaketu continued: ''I was not able to answer even one of the questions of that (kshatrabandhu-relative of kshatriya)?'' So saying he put forth the five questions posed by the King to his father. The Father replies: "''I do not know the answer to these questions, if I knew, would I not tell you"?''  So both the father and son go to King Pravahna’s assembly to seek knowledge. The guests were received with hospitality and after that the King humbly requested. ''Bhagavan (as a brahmin usually was addressed), you can ask for any kind of wealth that is within the means of a human being?''

Shvetaketu continued: ''I was not able to answer even one of the questions of that (kshatrabandhu-relative of kshatriya)?'' So saying he put forth the five questions posed by the King to his father. The Father replies: "''I do not know the answer to these questions, if I knew, would I not tell you"?''  So both the father and son go to King Pravahna’s assembly to seek knowledge. The guests were received with hospitality and after that the King humbly requested, <blockquote>''Bhagavan (as a brahmin usually was addressed), you can ask for any kind of wealth that is within the means of a human being?''</blockquote>Here the implication is that the [[Kshatriya (क्षत्रिय) | क्षत्रिय || Kshatriya]] can give material wealth to the Brahmana but '''ब्रह्मविद्या''' as per the prevailing वर्णव्यवस्था (social order) was usually respected as the brahmana’s domain. Notably, contrary to the still continuing popular perception invented by the EIC Indologists and their Indian Sepoys, वर्ण || Varna  (translated wrongly as caste) was determined by संस्कार and not parentage.

 

Here the implication is that the [[Kshatriya (क्षत्रिय) | क्षत्रिय || Kshatriya]] can give material wealth to the Brahmana but ब्रह्मविद्या as per the prevailing वर्णव्यवस्था (social order) was usually respected as the brahmana’s domain. Notably, contrary to the still continuing popular perception invented by the EIC Indologists and their Indian Sepoys, वर्ण || Varna  (translated wrongly as caste) was determined by संस्कार and not parentage.

But Shvetaketu and his father were not there for material wealth, they had come to receive ब्रह्मविद्या from the [[Kshatriya (क्षत्रिय) | क्षत्रिय || Kshatriya]] King. [[Uddalaka (उद्दालक)|Uddalaka]] humbly requested the King, ''Please bestow upon us, the answer for the questions you asked my son.''

But Shvetaketu and his father were not there for material wealth, they had come to receive ब्रह्मविद्या from the [[Kshatriya (क्षत्रिय) | क्षत्रिय || Kshatriya]] King. [[Uddalaka (उद्दालक)|Uddalaka]] humbly requested the King, ''Please bestow upon us, the answer for the questions you asked my son.''