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Plain text of Fifth Prapathaka · Fifteenth Khanda

5.15.1 Then he said to Jana Sarkarakshya: "Sarkarakshya! Whom do you reverence as your Lord?"

"Space indeed, Sir, O King," said he.

"Space, the expanse, is a sign of God, but it is not God, whom you have taken it to be. Therefore you are expanded with offspring and wealth.

5.15.2 You eat food; you see what is pleasing. He eats food; he sees what is pleasing. There is eminence in sacred knowledge in the family of him who knows God thus.

That, however, is only a body's worth of the truth," said he. "Your body would have fallen to pieces, if you had not come unto me."