What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
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What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
The Hindu Vedas distinguish between one's true self (Ātman) and the transcendent self (Brahman). A person can only be liberated when they realise that their true self is indistinguishable from the single binding unity of reality, and that there is no difference between 'I' and 'you' and 'her'—in other words, that Ātman and Brahman are one and the s
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