Witnessing his innocence and his desire to learn, the sage declares that the boy's honesty is the mark of a "Brāhmaṇa, true seeker of the knowledge of the Brahman" and accepts him as a student in his school.
[3] The symbolic legend then presents Satyakāma's conversation with a bull, a fire, a swan (Haṃsa, हंस) and a diver bird (Madgu, मद्गु), which respectively symbolise Vāyu, Agni, Āditya and Prāṇa.
[1] Satyakāma then learns from these creatures that the form of Brahman is in all cardinal directions (north, south, east, west), world-bodies (earth, atmosphere, sky and ocean), sources of light (fire, sun, moon, lightning), and in man (breath, eye, ear and mind).
[2] Satyakāma returns to his teacher with a thousand cows, and humbly learns the rest: the nature of Brahman (metaphysical, ultimate reality).
A Vedic school is named after him, as is the influential ancient text Jābāla Upanishad – a treatise on Sannyāsa (a Hindu monk's monastic life).