“Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.”
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Source: Young India (8 April 1926); main sourced 1920s section of Gandhi's Wikiquote page.
About this quote
Drawn from Vedantic thought: the vast universe can't be scanned directly, but the self is right here to examine. Study your own mind honestly and you meet the same forces — desire, fear, order — that run through everything, so inner inquiry becomes the practical door to the larger truth.
When to use it
- Someone who catches their own snap judgments starts recognizing the same bias playing out across a whole crowd.
- A person who maps their own triggers in therapy suddenly understands relatives wired the same way.
- A meditator who watches craving rise and pass in their own mind reads the same pattern in markets and moods around them.