Tat Twam Asi

Tat Tvam Asi, a Sanskrit sentence, translating variously to "Thou art that," "That thou art," "You are that," or "That you are," is one of the Mahāvākyas (Grand Pronouncements) in Vedantic Sanatana Dharma. It originally occurs in the Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7, in the dialogue between Uddalaka and his son Śvetaketu; it appears at the end of a section, and is repeated at the end of the subsequent sections as a refrain. The meaning of this saying is that the Self - in its original, pure, primordial state - is wholly or partially identifiable or identical with the Ultimate Reality that is the ground and origin of all phenomena. The knowledge that this is so characterises the experience of liberation or salvation that accompanies the Unio Mystica.

'Thou' stands for the inherent substratum in each one of us without which our very existence is out of question. Certainly it is not the body, mind, the senses, or anything that we call ours. It is the innermost Self, stripped of all egoic tendencies. It is Ātman.

The entity indicated by the word 'That' according to the notation used in the Vedas, is Brahman, the transcendent Reality which is beyond everything that is finite, everything that is conceived or thought about. You cannot give a full analogy to it and that is why the Vedas say words cannot describe it. It cannot even be imagined because when there is nothing else other than Brahman it has to be beyond space and time. We can imagine space without earth,water, fire and air. But it is next to impossible to imagine something outside space. Space is the most subtle of the five elemental fundamentals. As we proceed from the grossest to the subtle, that is, from earth to water, to fire, to air, and to space the negation of each grosser matter is possible to be imagined within the framework of the more subtle one. But once we reach the fifth one, namely space or Ākāsha, the negation of that and the conception of something beyond, where even the space is merged into something more subtle, is not for the finite mind. The Vedas therefore declare the existence of this entity and call it 'sat' (existence), also known as Brahman.

In Indonesia

Jika aku adalah kamu, maka aku selayaknya menyayangimu, sesayang aku pada tubuh dan jiwaku. Sesakit aku menyakiti diriku, seperti itulah jika aku menyakitimu. Aku tak ingin hatimu retak seperti cawan keramik terkena goyangan gempa.
Jika aku mencelamu, maka aku mencela diriku sendiri. Mencemoohmu, sama dengan mencemoohku.

Bijak dan bajik, dua kata yang mesti terukir di benakku, untuk menyayangimu. Namun terkadang, sifat sad ripu menarikan kecak, berkeliling di api unggun, mengodaku untuk menyakitimu. Membuat air matamu tumpah, menggenang di dadamu yang kukuh. Kamu merenda kata dalam diammu, yang tak mampu kumengerti. Kepalaku hanya dipenuhi oleh rasa dengki, iri, marah, bingung, bodoh. Gelap, terkadang gelap menguasaiku.
Maafkan aku. Hanya kata maaf yang bisa kuucapkan padamu.

(Ajaran Tat Twam Asi berasal dari ajaran agama Hindu di India. Artinya : "aku adalah engkau, engkau adalah aku." Filosofi yang termuat dari ajaran ini adalah bagaimana kita bisa berempati, merasakan apa yang tengah dirasakan oleh orang yang di dekat kita. Ketika kita menyakiti orang lain, maka diri kita pun tersakiti. Ketika kita mencela orang lain, maka kita pun tercela. Maka dari itu, bagaimana menghayati perasaan orang lain, bagaimana mereka berespon akibat dari tingkah laku kita, demikianlah hendaknya ajaran ini menjadi dasar dalam bertingkah laku.)

origin version in wikipedia dan seikatpadi

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