5.24.1 If one eats without knowing this, without gratitude to his Lord, that would be just as if he were to remove the live coals and pour the offering on ashes.

5.24.2 But if one eats knowing it thus, his thanks go up to God for all that He has created.

5.24.3 So, as a rush-reed laid on a fire would be burned up, even so are burned up all the evils of him who gives thanks to his Lord thus.

5.24.4 And therefore, if one who knows this should give of his food even to the poorest and the lowliest, it would be accepted as a charity. As to this there is the following verse:

As hungry children sit around

About their mother here in life,

E'en so all beings sit around

The table that God has spread.

The instruction of Svetaketu by Uddalaka concerning the key to all knowledge