An idea from Upanishads

The father’s lessons keep ending with “That art thou, Svetaketu”. Later schools fought over the line. One reads it as you and the ground of everything being one thing; others keep the two apart. A 1986 study of the grammar reads it as saying that is how you are.

From Upanishads by Anonymous

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