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Thatwamasi (that thou art)
2012
Museum Vitrine, and vacuum cleaner
180cmX140cmX70cm

A Vedic discourse
1. What is thatwamasi?
It says, the same God is in every one of us, everywhere in all living and non-living things.

Drishtantha (Explanation with an example):
A dhobi (a washer man) went to an animal market and bought 4 donkeys and on the return trip, sat on one of them and drove the other three. On reaching his house he shouted, "God... I bought four and now I have only three". His wife who was standing in front of his house said, "What? Four? There are in fact five donkeys here" and saying this she counted them by tapping on their heads, "One, two, three, four and five". The fifth tap was on the head of the dhobi.

2. If that be so, why all objects and beings don't look the same but are in different shapes and sizes?"
It is "Maya" (an Illusion).
Drishtantha (Explanation with an example):
Once a rich man wrote a will partitioning his property amongst his three sons. When he died they took out the will and read. The house where they lived went to the eldest, the shop went to the second and the paddy fields and coconut groves went to the share of the third son. The rich man had seventeen elephants and perhaps feeling that value-wise the share of the youngest was the highest and that of the eldest was the least, he had written in his will that the eldest should get 1/2, the second son 1/3 and the third son 1/9 of the elephants.
The eldest son said half of 17 are eight and a half and so I should get nine. The second son said, "No. That is not fair". The third son said, “1 by 9 of 17 is 1 and 8/9. Eight by nine is a much bigger fraction than 1/2. So it is me who should get 2 elephants'. They started quarrelling.
A wise man was passing that way on his elephant. He stopped and enquired what the problem was and then said, "Don't you quarrel. I will give my elephant also. Now partition it. Half of 18 are 9; 1/3 of 18 are 6 and 1/9 of 18 are 2. Now you take 9, 6 and 2", thus solving their problem the minister got on his elephant that was left out and went his way. This wise man's elephant is 'Maya' or illusion. It existed at the time of partitioning but vanished when the job was over.

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Thatwamasi (that thou art)
2012
Museum Vitrine, and vacuum cleaner
180cmX140cmX70cm

A Vedic discourse
1. What is thatwamasi?
It says, the same God is in every one of us, everywhere in all living and non-living things.

Drishtantha (Explanation with an example):
A dhobi (a washer man) went to an animal market and bought 4 donkeys and on the return trip, sat on one of them and drove the other three. On reaching his house he shouted, "God... I bought four and now I have only three". His wife who was standing in front of his house said, "What? Four? There are in fact five donkeys here" and saying this she counted them by tapping on their heads, "One, two, three, four and five". The fifth tap was on the head of the dhobi.

2. If that be so, why all objects and beings don't look the same but are in different shapes and sizes?"
It is "Maya" (an Illusion).
Drishtantha (Explanation with an example):
Once a rich man wrote a will partitioning his property amongst his three sons. When he died they took out the will and read. The house where they lived went to the eldest, the shop went to the second and the paddy fields and coconut groves went to the share of the third son. The rich man had seventeen elephants and perhaps feeling that value-wise the share of the youngest was the highest and that of the eldest was the least, he had written in his will that the eldest should get 1/2, the second son 1/3 and the third son 1/9 of the elephants.
The eldest son said half of 17 are eight and a half and so I should get nine. The second son said, "No. That is not fair". The third son said, “1 by 9 of 17 is 1 and 8/9. Eight by nine is a much bigger fraction than 1/2. So it is me who should get 2 elephants'. They started quarrelling.
A wise man was passing that way on his elephant. He stopped and enquired what the problem was and then said, "Don't you quarrel. I will give my elephant also. Now partition it. Half of 18 are 9; 1/3 of 18 are 6 and 1/9 of 18 are 2. Now you take 9, 6 and 2", thus solving their problem the minister got on his elephant that was left out and went his way. This wise man's elephant is 'Maya' or illusion. It existed at the time of partitioning but vanished when the job was over.