For centuries, Eastern cultures and religions held that this material world, and the perception that human beings exist as separate entities within it, is all an illusion. The Vedas, the oldest Scriptures of Hinduism and Indian thought, taught that all differences are ultimately unreal. The ultimate truth is Tat tvam asi—“Thou art That.” In other words, the physical world appears to contain many discrete individual objects. This object A is not that object B. That’s what our senses (and science and logic) tell us. While one person suffers losses, another person has plenty. But this is a
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