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 2.1.2

That becomes non-different from the wife, just as much as her own limb is. Therefore (the fetus) does not hurt her. She nourishes this self of his that has entered here (in her womb).


  • tatstriyā —

  • ātmabhūyaṃ —

  • gacchati —

  • yathā —

  • svamaṅgaṃ —

  • tathā —

  • tasmādenāṃ —

  • na —

  • hinasti —

  • sā'syaitamātmānamatra —

  • gataṃ —

  • bhāvayati —

Aitareya Upanishad