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Aitareya Upanishad
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The Aitareya Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads.
Quotes
Olivelle Patrick The Early Upanishads Oxford University Press Oxford 1998 0-19-512435-9
Knowledge is the eye of all that,
and on knowledge it is founded.
Knowledge is the eye of the world,
and knowledge, the foundation.
Brahman is knowing (prajñānaṁ brahma).
3.3
It is with this self consisting of knowledge that he went up from this world
and, having obtained all his desire in the heavenly world up there, became immortal.
3.4
In the beginning this world was the self (atman), one alone, and there was no other being at all that blinked an eye.
He thought to himself: "Let me create the worlds."
1.1
External links
Category:Upanishads