Isha Upanishad – Verse Eight – Discourse One – Part Two

Acharya Aashish is an Enlightened Master, a spiritual leader a modern-day mystic who speaks in his various discourses on modern day practical living. In this discourse on Isha Upanishad - Verse Eight he takes you through meaning of God and the oneness.

When we consider the abstract and impersonal aspect of the infinite existence, we use the word “That” for the Existence, when we consider the Existent self-aware and self-blissful, we use the word “He”. This is the reason God is referred to as He because we consider God to be self-aware and full of bliss but neither conception is entirely complete. Brahman itself is the Unknowable beyond all conceptions of Personality and Impersonality, because both the existence and God is unknown, so in real sense the words That and He cannot be certainly used for both the existence or about God.

We may call it “That” to show that we exile from our affirmation all term and definition. We may equally call it “He”, provided we speak with the same intention of rigorous exclusion. “Tat” and “Sat” or “That” and “He” are always the same. When we are speaking about the Oneness then it becomes important to talk about Om Tat Sat. Om Tat Sat is a mantra in Sanskrit which means 'the three words of the three forms of God’.

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