An idea from Upanishads

Narada knows every science of his day, from grammar to mathematics, and he is still unhappy. His teacher calls all of it a name and walks him up a ladder: speech, mind, hope, breath, truth, up to the unbounded. “There is no Pleasure in the small.”

From Upanishads by Anonymous

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