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and their thinking led them to believe that higher spiritual level could be attained by the development of human soul. This trend resulted in Upanishad period. Chhandogya Upanishad reveals that when Shvetaketu, the son of the renowned Rishi Aruni returned home after studying all the Vedas for number of years, he was asked by his father whether he had studied that,knowing which, everything which was worth knowing in this world, was known. Shvekatu asked what it was because his teachers had not taught him anything like that. Therefter Aruni,his father, instructed him by demonstration that the whole scheme of this universe was governed by a Dynamic Force, which permeated all things sentient and that the real personality, which he possessed, was due to this Force.: “Tat Twam Asi, Shvetaketu”, he said. Another Upanishad called Kathopanishad reveals a similar line of thinking when a yong aspirant named Nachiketa met Yama, the god of death to learn the science of soul by asking, “When a person dies, does he
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