God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World's Sacred Poetry and Prose (Essential Easwaran Library Book 4)

by Eknath Easwaran

THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD You Are That This is the teaching of Uddalaka to Shvetaketu, his son: As by knowing one lump of clay, dear one, We come to know all things made out of clay – That they differ only in name and form, While the stuff of which all are made is clay; As by knowing one gold nugget, dear one, We come to know all things made out of gold – That they differ only in name and form, While the stuff of which all are made is gold; As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, We come to know all things made out of iron – That they differ only in name and form, While the stuff of which all are made is iron – So through spiritual wisdom, dear one, We come to know that all of life is one. In the beginning was only Being, One without a second. Out of himself he brought forth the cosmos And entered into everything in it. There is nothing that does not come from him.