Those rivers, when they are in the sea, do not know, I am this or that river.

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'These rivers, my son, run, the eastern toward the east, the western toward the west. They go from sea to sea. They become indeed sea. And as those rivers, when they are in the sea, do not know, I am this or that river, in the same manner, my son, all these creatures, when they have come back from the True, know not that they have come back from the True. Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a musquito, that they become again and again. That which is that subtile essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.'

Source Khândogya-upanishad, Sixth Prapâthaka, §9 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to the Khândogya Upanishad, a father teaches his son Svetaketu that beings are like rivers flowing into the sea: once in the ocean, they no longer say “I am this river”; in the same way, all beings come from the True, the subtle essence of everything, the Self, and “thou art it.” Today, when you meet someone very different from you, remember that you come from the same sea.

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