Isha Upanishad in 90 seconds

What if I said you could essence of Hinduism in just 18 lines?

Here’s the tea.

The Isha Upanishad, also called as the Īśāvāsya Upanishad, is the shortest of the 10 major ones, and forms a beautiful tiny chapter of the Krishna Yajurveda, with only 18 verses.

But don’t dismiss it just yet because you’ll find the three of the wildest & most important Hindu ideas beautifully explained in a very concise way here -

1. The first idea is that you, I and everyone else are the same, we are all One Atman in the end, so the ultimate hack to being free of all our problems is to stop seeing others as different, and treat everyone as you, yourself.

2. The second crazy idea is that this One Being, one Atman, is the Brahman i.e. God, which basically means we are God ourselves, only the blanket called maya stops us from seeing this reality, which is why we keep being born & dying in new bodies again & again.

3. And the third main lesson is that if we want to get out of this endless cycle of torture, we have to keep doing our work without any desires or expectations, in fact even when we worship God, we should do it without a motive in mind - otherwise we’ll get stuck again.