Harih, Om. There lived once Svetaketu Âruneya (the grandson of Aruna). To him his father (Uddâlaka, the son of Aruna) said: 'Svetaketu, go to school; for there is none belonging to our race, darling, who, not having studied (the Veda), is, as it were, a Brâhmana by birth only.'

In plain words: There once was a boy named Shvetaketu. His father, Uddalaka, told him to go and study the Vedas, the sacred texts. He said no one in their family had ever been a priest by birth alone without truly learning.