A sage once asked his young son to break open a tiny banyan seed. The boy looked inside and said that he could see almost nothing. Then came a question that would lead him towards one of the deepest ideas in Indian philosophy: if you cannot see what is inside the seed, how does a gigantic banyan tree emerge from it? The lesson was not really about the tree. It was about something far more difficult to see: the invisible essence behind life itself. Through a seed, honey, rivers and a dying tree, the sage slowly revealed one powerful truth: Tat Tvam Asi, “That Thou Art.”
