... in every living creature and not just human beings. This could also support the idea of reincarnation in that atman is "unborn" and "eternal" and so is transported from physical body to physical body, human or animal. Chapter four also suggests where atman physically dwells, which is that "spirit the size of a thumb, lives in the middle of one's soul". This imagery is repeated several times throughout the Upanishad highlighting its significance, the idea that atman, though small, lives in every human's ego and personality. Chapter four also describes the soul as "omnipresent", an idea that is presented in the fig tree analogy that "its root is above, its branches below" "on it all the world's rest". This analogy suggests that atman or Brahman are existence, beyond them there is nothing. The concept that atman is everywhere is mentioned again in chapter four in " whatever is here, that is ...

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