Core tenet of Hinduism⚖ contested within
Atman and Brahman are one — the self is the absolute.
Advaita affirms this; Dvaita holds the opposite — that self and God are eternally distinct. Both are Hinduism, and their argument is eight centuries old and still running.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Upanishadic thunderclap: the innermost self and the ground of being are not similar but identical. Advaita takes it literally — one reality, appearance notwithstanding; Dvaita reads it as intimacy, not identity, and the argument between those readings is a millennium old and still live. Held here as contested, which is the honest label.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
That subtle essence which is the self of all — that is truth, that is the self. Tat tvam asi: that thou art.
Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7Repeated nine times, father to son.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
All things arise dependently.
Buddhism
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Syadvada — the sevenfold answer.
Jainism
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God contracted to make room for the world.
Judaism
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Fana.
Islam · the interior
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Sahaj — the state that holds by itself.
Sikhism · the interior
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Five forms, one Brahman.
Smartism
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