Aitareya Upanishad

The Aitareya Upanishad is a short prose text from the Aitareya Aranyaka in the Rig Veda. It explains the symbolic meaning of the rituals described in the previous chapters of the Aranyaka, and contains particularly famous aphorisms (maha vakya) like prajnanam brahma - "Brahman is perfect knowledge". Aitareya Upanishad discusses the philosophy of the individual and the self, the theory of reincarnation, and the relationship between individual consciousness and the universal consciousness.

Aitareya 1.3.13

Being born, He manifested all the beings; for did He speak of (or know) anything else? He realized this very Purusha as Brahman, the most pervasive, thus:- "I have realized this".


  • sa —

  • jāto —

  • bhūtānyabhivyaikhyat —

  • kimihānyaṃ —

  • vāvadiṣaditi —

  • sa —

  • etameva —

  • puruṣaṃ —

  • brahma —

  • tatamamapaśyat —

  • idamadarśanamitī —

Aitareya Upanishad