Talk:Thou Art God

For the May 2005 deletion debate on this article, see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Thou Art God.

Connection with Pantheism/Pandeism (maybe Theopanism)

This article needs to be developed respecting the connection with this phrase/concept and with Pantheism/Pandeism (maybe Theopanism).... God is in all things, thus each of us is an equal part of God, and to strike or otherwise disrespect another person is to do this to God!! //// Pacific PanDeist * 03:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Nobody outside of your religion is likely to add your beliefs to this article. If you think you can do so and make it verifiable, go ahead and try. We'll improve it if it needs improving, or delete it if we can't verify its source. There's no need for for a notice on the article page for something you can do yourself. I'm going to delete it. --Danbur (talk) 20:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

References

That References section is very silly. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.199.188 (talk) 19:47, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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The assertion that the Hindu/Vedic phrase "Tat Tvam Asi" is related to what the article describes as "a philosophy that we are each Gods of our own reality..." etc is patently false. This sort of absolute individualism is rooted in a western humanism masquerading under a pagan image - not in any sort of Brahmanic tradition. Moreover, the Vedic tradition brooks no compromise with this sort of philosophy. The author has a very tenuous grasp of the exegetic tradition in Hinduism. Tat Tvam Asi is an assertion that the individual soul is coextensive with the absolute reality, a reality that is "one without a second" and beyond definition. What is described here is an absolute unity which can be perceived as the uncaused cause of all manifestation - not a plethora of human "Gods" lording over their own reality. This association of modern western neopagan/new age ideas with the Hindu tradition is bad scholarship and has to stop. 74.137.135.94 (talk) 21:53, 11 December 2009 (UTC) Anand Sankaranarayanan