Tat Tvam Asi (You are that)
That is probably what Uddalaka Aruni would tell us humans if he was still walking the planet in physical form observing so many of us feeling miserable, caught up in our me-me-ness, and making a mess of things.
Long, long before Socrates was born to teach... sometime in the 8th-6th century BCE ...,,,there existed a rishi, a great philosopher, a teacher of Oneness that walked what we know today to be India. He was responsible for writing one of the oldest Hindu texts- the Chandogya Upanishad from which that sanskrit term comes and later became the Samaveda.
How can we non-Hindu westerns understand that phrase?
We can understand it by studying the words of the greatest rishi in the world who came much, much later. Christ was teaching the very same thing
My father and I are one John 10-30
We can also understand it by analyzing the findings of modern science. Nikola Telsa said, "We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us. "
Albert Einstein said, "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "the Universe"- a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
"Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. " Erwin Schrodinger.
Let's listen to both those who have studied in external laboratories, and those who have studied in the internal laboratories of the mind to discover this truth.
Tat Tvam Asi
Or as Michael Singer often quotes,
The purified mind is no different than the Self.
All is well!
Michael Singer/ Temple of the Universe/ Sounds True ( December, 2025) The Yoga of Wisdom: The Path to Liberation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHoi4u8jpMY&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=1
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