A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s9.2

v1.c8.s9.2

(That which is of the greatest value in the Upaniṣads is those fundamental thoughts, on the basis of which we can speak of a "philosophy of the Upaniṣads," above all, the fundamental doctrine which pervades all the genuine Upaniṣads, and which can be summed up in the sentence: "*The universe is the Brahman, but the Brahman is the Ātman,*" which in our mode of philosophical expression would be equal to: "The world is God, and God is my soul.")