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 2.1.3

She, the nourisher, becomes fit to be nourished. The wife bears that embryo (before the birth). He (the father) protects the son at the very start, soon after his birth. That he protects the son at the very beginning, just after birth, thereby he protects his own self for the sake of the continuance of these worlds. For thus is the continuance of these worlds ensured. That is his second birth.





  • sā —

  • bhāvayitrī —

  • bhāvayitavyā —

  • bhavati —

  • taṃ —

  • strī —

  • garbha —

  • bibharti —

  • so'gra —

  • eva —

  • kumāraṃ —

  • janmano'gre'dhibhāvayati —

  • sa —

  • yatkumāraṃ —

  • janmano'gre'dhibhāvayatyātmānameva —

  • tadbhāvayatyeṣaṃ —

  • lokānāṃ —

  • santatyā —

  • evaṃ —

  • santatā —

  • hīme —

  • lokāstadasya —

  • dvitīyaṃ —

  • janma —

Aitareya Upanishad