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 1.3.3

This food, that was created, turned back and attempted to run away. He tried to take it up with speech. He did not succeed in taking it up through speech. If He had succeeded in taking it up with the speech, then one would have become contented merely by talking of food.



  • tadenatsṛṣṭaṃ —

  • parāṅtyajighāṃsattadvācā'jighṛkṣat —

  • tannāśaknodvācā —

  • grahītum —

  • sa —

  • yaddhainadvācā'grahaiṣyadabhivyāhṛtya —

  • haivānnamatrapsyat —

Aitareya Upanishad