Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
– Chandogya Upanishad
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Sarvam khalvidam brahma tajjalaniti santa upasita atha khalu…
Sarvam khalvidam brahma
tajjalaniti santa upasita
atha khalu kratumayah puruso
yatha-kratur-asmin-loke puruso
bhavati tathetah pretya bhavati
sa kratum kurvita
-Chandogya Upanishad, 3.14.1
All this is Brahman.
(This) is born from, dissolves in, and exists in That.
Therefore, one should meditate by becoming calm.
Because a person is identified with (one’s) conviction, (therefore) just as the conviction a person has in this world, so does one become after departing from here. Therefore one should shape one’s conviction.
tat tvam asi – That Thou art
tat tvam asi – “Thou art That”
Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7, Sama Veda
A Mahâvâkya from the Sâmaveda
Chândogya Upanisad 6.8.7, etc.
- sa ya eso ‘nimâ aitadâtmyam idam sarvam, tat satyam, sa âtmâ. tat tvam asi, Svetaketo.
- Olivelle (p. 152): “The finest essence here—that constitutes the self of this whole world; that is the truth; that is the self (âtman). And that’s how you are, Svetaketu.”
Hume (p. 246): “That which is the finest essence—this whole world has that as its soul. That is reality (satya). That is Âtman (Soul). That art thou, Svetaketu.”
Radhakrishnan (p. 458): “That which is the subtle essence (the root of all) this whole world has for its self. That is the true. That is the self. That art thou, Sv