An idea from Upanishads

A teacher named Yajnavalkya is about to leave home for the wandering life and offers to divide his property between his 2 wives. One of them, Maitreyi, asks if the whole earth full of wealth would make her immortal. No, he says. Then she wants only what he knows.

From Upanishads by Anonymous

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