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The Aitareya Upanishad

On creation and the descent of the Self into the human being — and on the nature of consciousness as the only ultimate reality.

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Tradition: Śruti. Embedded in the Aitareya Āraṇyaka of the Rig Veda. Closes with the great mahāvākya "prajñānam brahma" — "Brahman is consciousness."
Translation: F. Max Müller, *The Upanishads*, Sacred Books of the East, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879) and vol. 15 (1884). Public domain.
License: Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
Source: archive.org

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