An idea from Upanishads

A boy named Satyakama wants to study, and the teacher asks about his family. He repeats his mother’s words exactly: she was a servant girl and doesn’t know what family he comes from. The teacher takes him on the spot. “You have not deviated from the truth”

From Upanishads by Anonymous

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