Sudama was a good brahman, he did not aspire to more than the learning

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When Prajapati "saw" all his desires and everything he would like to achieve, he also saw the asvamedha...What is most obscure here, what was always obscure and will always remain so, lies in the answer to the question:what happened exactly when Prajapati "saw" the ashwamedha and "sacrificed with the ashwamedha"? Prajapati was, among other things, a white horse. And likewise, "the first sacrificer". But on this occasion, was he horse or sacrificer? Was he the horse who was sacrificed or the sacrificer who killed the horse? Never did active and passive come so close to each other, to the point that they were superimposed one over the other, confused one over the toher. It was not out of a desire to conceal things that this question remained obscure. Its very nature was obscurity, whatever one might try to make of it. "Being active or passive,"thought Prajapati, "doesn't make that much difference. Or at least it doesn't make the enormous difference men will see there. Every active is someone else's passive. But this is the truth, that in the normal way of things, would confuse men's minds rather than illuminate them. If they accepted it, everything would get hopelessly tangled. And this is the reason why a part of the teaching must remain secret: to prevent the course of world events from being paralyzed by knowledge; to creat a situation where the only people who can gain access to knowledge are those who, even when they are imbued with it, will allow the world to pursue its course" from Ka by Roberto Calasso