Brahman in All Things
The divine presence pervades all of existence.
Brahman is not distant but intimately present in all things. The wise see the same Brahman in a learned brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and an outcaste.
He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings never shrinks from anything.
This vision transforms our relationship with all of life.
Isha Upanishad
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Isha's test is behavioural: one who sees all beings in the Self never shrinks from anything. The same Brahman is to be seen in a learned brahmin, a cow, a dog and an outcaste — which makes this a claim about how you enter a room, not only about how you feel once inside it.