All This Is One Ground
All this, truly, is one source. From it all things arise and into it they dissolve — so, with a calm mind, hold it before you.
If this world I see in fragments rests on one ground, what would I treat differently?
📝Reflection
This short line, 'all this is one ground,' holds the heart of the Chandogya. We see the world in countless fragments — mine and others', the liked and the disliked. Yet if all things arise from one source and return to it, that dividing is only surface. What is striking is the counsel to meet this knowing 'with a calm mind.' A noisy mind cannot see the oneness. Only when the waves are still does it appear that all of them are one sea. When we set down, for a while, the mind that fragments the world, what stood opposed is revealed to rest on the same ground.
🌱Apply It Today
When you see two opposing sides today, consider once, 'These two also rest on the same ground.'
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
