An idea from Upanishads

Svetaketu comes home at 24 after 12 years of study, proud of himself. His father has him drop salt in water overnight. In the morning he can’t find the salt, yet every sip tastes of it. The hidden essence of things is like that: “Verily, indeed, it is here.”

From Upanishads by Anonymous

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