Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s6.36

c11.s6.36

The Upanishads also pave the way of the worship of *Saguṇa* Brahma merging in the meditation of *Nirguṇa* Brahma. This is effected by the direction that he who worships God must think of Him as his own self in the spirit of the doctrine, *Tat Tvam Asi*, or the other doctrine, *Ayam Ātmā Brahma* or *Aham Brahmāsmi*. The Upanishad condemns the worshipper who keeps up a sense of duality in *Upāsanā*: "Now if a man worships another deity, thinking the deity to be one, and himself another, he does not know."