The father said: `Taste it from the surface of the water. How is it?' The son replied: `It is salt.' `Taste it from the middle. How is it?' The son replied: `It is salt.' `Taste it from the bottom. How is it?' The son replied `It is salt.' The father said: `Throw it away and then wait on me.' He did so; but salt exists for ever. Then the father said: `Here also, in this body, forsooth, you do not perceive the True (Sat), my son; but there indeed it is.