A Fascinating Piece on Hinduism in the NYTIMES
Jonardon Ganeri (interviewed in the piece) observes:
“Another Hindu
conception of the divine is that it is the essential reality in comparison to
which all else is only concealing appearance. This is the concept of one finds
in the Upanishads. Philosophically the most important claim the Upanishads make
is that the essence of each person is also the essence of all things’; the
human self and brahman (the essential reality) are the same.”