An idea from Upanishads

A son asks his father what everything comes from. Find out by hard discipline, the father says, 5 times over. The son decides it is food, then breath, then mind, then understanding, and finally bliss. Each answer is a layer of the person, wrapped around the next.

From Upanishads by Anonymous

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