Transmitting knowledge is a way to repay
ṚṣTṛṇa/Guruṛṇa/debt of sages
The Vedic tradition (Taittiriya Samhita, Satapatha Brahmana) holds that every person is born with debts (ṛṇa) that must be repaid in life.
The debt to the gods (deva-ṛṇa) is repaid by sacrifices; the debt to the forefathers (pitṛ-ṛṇa) by raising progeny and performing ancestral rites; the debt to the seers or teachers (ṛṣi-ṛṇa) by studying the Veda and passing that knowledge on to others.
So transmitting knowledge, by studying and teaching, is the way to repay the debt to the sages, who handed knowledge down to us.
The debt to nature is a later, ecological idea repaid by conserving and caring for the environment, and it is not tied to the transmission of knowledge.
Hence, ṚṣTṛṇa/Guruṛṇa/debt of sages.
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