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The Upanishads, India's sacred scriptures that date to the middle of the first millennium BCE, proclaim tat tvam asi, "thou art that": the human and the divine are one.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Does Technology Reveal a Hidden Imperative Toward Empathy? 2010
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The Upanishads, India's sacred scriptures that date to the middle of the first millennium BCE, proclaim tat tvam asi, "thou art that": the human and the divine are one.
Dr. Larry Dossey: Does Technology Reveal a Hidden Imperative Toward Empathy? 2010
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I've been wondering whether Sanskrit aham next to tvam is an analogy, or whether it is old.
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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But I guess the Indo-Iranians could've thought the same thing after laryngeals disappeared, and thefore made an analogous tvam to aham.
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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The Upanishadic truth, tat tvam asi - "that thou art" - is an echo of the first separation between subject and object which human beings seem to naturally believe is the initial existential perception.
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It's the fact that his first credited appearance was on tvam that made me smile!
Is Tony Blair an Actor? Kerron Cross 2006
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The famous Vedantict words tat tvam asi have been interpreted by the Vedantists this way: “I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.”
The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002
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The famous Vedantict words tat tvam asi have been interpreted by the Vedantists this way: “I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.”
The Wonder of Children Michael Gurian 2002
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This identity is stated more precisely in another passage [185] where first occurs the celebrated formula Tat tvam asi, That art Thou, or Thou art It [186], _i. e._ the human soul is the Âtman and hence there is no real distinction between souls.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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In India it was taught in the Veda and the Vedanta under the formula _tat tvam asi_ -- thou art this -- _i. e._, individual differs not essentially from individual, nor a man from the whole human race.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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