Sacred Text · The Upanishads
All beings in the Self
Isha (Vagasaneyi-Samhita) Upanishad 6-7 · SBE vol. I · F. Max Müller
Translation: F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East, Part I (vol. I, 1879) and Part II (vol. XV, 1884), public domain (Müller died 1900), via the Internet Archive (items upanishads00mlgoog and upanishads02mlgoog). Reproduced in context; Müller’s round-bracket insertions are his own clarifying additions, and optical-scanning artefacts were corrected against his printed wording. The key passages Chandogya VI.8-16 (Tat tvam asi, ‘that art thou’), the Isha opening, Brihadaranyaka I.4.10 (Aham Brahmasmi, ‘I am Brahman’) and IV.5.15 (neti neti), and Katha I.2.18-20 on the immortal Self were validated against the source before publishing. References follow the standard Upanishad numbering.
How this connects to Jesus
To behold all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, the Upanishad says, is to be freed from sorrow and to fear no more. The Gospel too calls us to see every person as bound up with us and worthy of love: love your neighbour as yourself (Mark 12:31), for what you do to the least of these, you do to Christ (Matthew 25:40). Where the Upanishad grounds this unity in a single Self behind all, the Gospel grounds it in one Creator who made and loves each person, and who makes us one not by dissolving our differences but by joining us into one family in Christ.
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