Swetaketu : son of Arūṇi Uddālaka of Gautama gōtra; he realised the Self by learning the full import of Tattvamasi “Thou art That” from his father.
... sometimes opened door in our own self-awareness. Ancient Vedanta seized this message of the Intuition and formulated it in the three great declarations of the Upanishads, "I am He", "Thou art That, O Swetaketu", "All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman". But Intuition by the very nature of its action in man, working as it does from behind the veil, active principally in his more unenlightened ...
... the Self, that art thou, O Swetaketu." The evidence of Revealed Scripture seems to be conclusive for the Adwaitic view of existence. No, cries the Dualist, you have read it wrongly, you have separated átmátattwam into three distinct uncompounded words when there is really an euphonic combination of átmá atat twam, which gives us this result, "Thou art not that, O Swetaketu." Our inalienable perception ...
... Without going quite to the same extent of self-will Page 366 as the Dwaita Commentator who does not hesitate to turn the famous Tat twam asi into Atat twam asi, "Thou art not that, O Swetaketu," he goes far enough & uses a fatal masterfulness. The Isha especially, it seems to me, is vitiated by the defects of his method, because in the Isha the clear & apparent meaning of the text conflicts ...
... glance at it we can see how the mighty many-branching tree of the metaphysical philosophies burgeoned out from a very insignificant grain of tendency. Gautama in the Chhandogya, declares to his son Swetaketu the fundamental principle that all existence apparent to us here comes out of one anterior & ultimate existence, and he immediately notices the opposite appreciation, accepted as a starting point ...
... which we strive to express it to the mind … Ancient Vedanta seized this message of the Intuition and formulated it in the three great declarations of the Upanishads, ‘I am He’, ‘Thou art That, O Swetaketu’, ‘All this is the Brahman, this Self is the Brahman.’” 49 Secondly, ancient India had a broader gamut of philosophical schools, including even purely materialist ones, than the West has had ...
... The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution The Life Divine Chapter XVII The Progress to Knowledge - God, Man and Nature Thou art That, O Swetaketu. Chhandogya Upanishad. (VI. 8. 7.) The living being is none else than the Brahman, the whole world is the Brahman. Vivekachudamani. (Verse 479.) My supreme Nature has become ...
... truth of man's inner and outer existence by the light of this one and unifying vision. Page 17 The three great declarations of the ancient Vedanta are: 'I am He’, 7 'Thou art That, O Swetaketu’, 8 'All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman’. 9 The main conceptions of the Upanishads remained intact in parts at least in various philosophical systems, and efforts have been ...
... inmost truth of man's inner and outer existence by the light of this one and unifying vision. Hence, the three great declarations of the ancient Vedanta are: "I am he", 13 "Thou art That. 0 Swetaketu", 14 "All this is Page 88 the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman". 15 The main conceptions of the Upanishads remained in parts in the various philosophical systems and efforts were ...
... also; Thou art the boy and girl, and Thou art yonder worn and aged man that walkest bending upon a staff.... Thou art the blue bird and the green and the scarlet – eyed.” 20 “Thou art That, O Swetaketu.” 21 This great all that is us has shined at the summit of human accomplishment, left a few hieroglyphic traces on the walls of Thebes, and nourished initiates here and there – at times we have ...
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