There are mantras one understands. "Less is more." Sure. "Carpe Diem." Good. "Everything was better in the old days." Debatable, but understandable. And then there's that mantra from the Vedic scriptures that Andreas Thiel has declared his favorite, which at first glance sounds like the philosophical surrender of someone who's run out of arguments mid-sentence: Everything is everything. Wait. Again. Everything. Is. Everything.
Anyone who thinks this is a tautology any first-grader could produce has underestimated Vedic philosophy. And probably Andreas Thiel as well. Because in the Vedic scriptures, "everything" is not a quantitative expression. It's a name. A synonym for Brahma, the creator, the divine, the infinite—just as other cultures say "light" or "love" when they mean "God." "Everything is everything" therefore means: Everything is divine. Every thing, every person, every thought, every moment. Of divine origin. Of divine nature. Unreservedly.
And now comes the question that must be asked, because it must always be asked: What about the bad? About evil? About that which resists this cosmic embrace?
The Vedic answer is as elegant as it is unsettling: Evil is not an independent entity. It is a deficiency. Impatience is not a thing in itself—it is simply a lack of patience. Misunderstanding is not an independent being—only understanding that is lacking something. Evil does not exist as a substance; it exists as absence. As a separation from the divine. As a distance from the source.
Logically, this means: there are no bad people. Only good people in bad situations. People who have distanced themselves from the divine – temporarily, reversibly, and remediably. This is either the most compassionate anthropology ever formulated, or the best excuse for everything humanity has ever done. Probably both.
And then the last sentence, which is actually the most powerful: If you take everything away from everything, everything remains. Subtract all of creation—the material, the spiritual, everything visible and conceivable—from God, and God does not diminish. He remains what he is: an inexhaustible source of life, light, and love. Creation is not a loss for the Creator. It is a gift he gave himself, and one that can be taken back at any time without anything being lost.
For people who like to possess, control, and hold on to things—and there are a frightening number of them—this is an unbearable thought. The state, the Lamborghini, power, the castle: all distances from the divine, disguised as achievements. Everything is everything. And those who cling to it—they still haven't understood anything…






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