5.17.1 Then he said to Uddalaka Aruni: "Gautama! Whom do you reverence as your Lord?"

"The earth indeed, Sir, O King," said he.

"The earth is a sign of God, a support He has provided, but it is not God, whom you have taken it to be. Therefore you are supported with offspring and cattle.

5.17.2 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 foot's worth of the truth," said he. "Your feet would have withered away, if you had not come unto me."