#Maitreyi

“The oldest Upaniṣad twice records a woman stopping the greatest philosopher of the age at his own front door with a question about money that no economist has improved on — and twice records her saying, honestly, that his answer left her bewildered. India put her question, and her bewilderment, at the very center of its oldest philosophy — and then argued for two and a half thousand years about who she was.”

“Offered half of everything her husband owned as he prepared to renounce the world, she asked one question before accepting: if the whole earth full of wealth were mine, would it make me deathless? Told no, she handed back the estate and demanded the knowledge instead.”