Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.9

6.9.1

yathā somya madhu madhukṛto nistiṣṭhanti nānātyayānāṃ vṛkṣāṇāṃ rasān samavahāram ekatāṃ rasaṃ gamayanti \\609.1\

1. ‘As the bees, my dear, prepare honey by collecting the essences of different trees and reducing the essence to a unity, as they are not able to discriminate “I am the essence of this tree,” “I am the essence of that tree”—even so, indeed, my dear, all creatures here, though they reach Being, know not “We have reached Being.”

6.9.2

te yathā tatra na vivekaṃ labhante 'muṣyāhaṃ vṛkṣasya raso 'smy amuṣyāhaṃ vṛkṣasya raso 'smīti \
evam eva khalu somyemāḥ sarvāḥ prajāḥ sati saṃpadya na viduḥ sati saṃpadyāmaha iti \\609.2\

6.9.3

ta iha vyaghro vā siṃho vā vṛko vā varāho vā kīṭo vā pataṅgo vā daṃśo vā maśako vā yad yad bhavanti tad ābhavanti \\609.3\

3. Whatever they are in this world, whether tiger, or lion, or wolf, or boar, or worm, or fly, or gnat, or mosquito, that they become.

6.9.4

sa ya eṣo 'ṇimaitad ātmyam idaṃ sarvam \
tat satyam \
sa ātmā \
tat tvam asi śvetaketo iti \
bhūya eva mā bhagavān vijñāpayatv iti \
tathā somyeti hovāca \\609.4\

4. That which is the finest essence—this whole world has that as its soul. That is Reality. That is Ātman (Soul). That art thou, Śvetaketu.’

‘Do you, Sir, cause me to understand even more.’

‘So be it, my dear,’ said he.