A boy came home very proud of all he had learned. So his father, the sage Uddalaka, gave him a simple lesson. “Put this lump of salt in a cup of water,” he said, “and bring it to me tomorrow.”
By morning the salt had vanished. “Where is the salt now?” asked the father. The boy could not see it. “Taste the water — from the top, the middle, the bottom.” It was salty everywhere.
“You cannot see the salt,” said his father gently, “yet it fills every drop. In the same quiet way, something true and good fills all of life, even when our eyes cannot find it.”