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Upanishads & Folk · Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1

सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रह्म

sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma

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“All this is indeed the infinite.”

मूल Original
सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रह्म

Sanskrit, in its own script.

उच्चारण How it sounds
sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma

Read it aloud — IAST transliteration.

अर्थ What it means
All this is indeed the infinite.

A thought about unity.

स्रोत Where it comes from
Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1

The Upanishads' oldest questions, and songs that walked out of villages into history.

Public domain · Ancient / pre-1960 text
When someone asks, “What does your T-shirt say?”

It's from Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1, in Sanskrit. It means: “All this is indeed the infinite.”

That's the whole idea. One line, and a conversation about something that has mattered for a thousand years.

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