Aitareya Upanishad

One of the ancient Sanskrit scriptures of Hinduism

The Aitareya Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads.

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Olivelle, Patrick (1998). The Early Upanishads. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 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
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