Why should you love yourself the most? Yajnavalkya and Buddha have different answers.
As vast as the space here around us is this space within the heart, and within it are contained both the earth and the sky, both fire and wind, both the sun and the moon, both lightening and stars. What belongs here to this space around us, as well as what does not – all that is contained within it (the heart).
– Chāndogya-Upaniṣad 8.3
This is one the earliest Hindu teaching of the integral unity of reality. The microcosm and macrocosm are one.
