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Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 7 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)

Canonical source text

प्रज्ञानं ब्रह्मेति वा अहं ब्रह्मास्मीति वा भाष्यते । तत्त्वमसीत्येव संभाष्यते । अयमात्मा ब्रह्मेति वा ब्रह्मैवाहमस्मीति वा ॥

IAST transliteration

prajñānaṃ brahmeti vā ahaṃ brahmāsmīti vā bhāṣyate | tattvamasīty eva saṃbhāṣyate | ayam ātmā brahmeti vā brahmaivāham asmīti vā ||

Close translation

It is spoken as ‘prajñānaṃ brahma’ or as ‘ahaṃ brahmāsmi’. It is spoken as ‘tat tvam asi’. It is spoken as ‘ayam ātmā brahma’ or as ‘brahmaiva aham asmi’.

Reader-friendly meaning

The mahāvākyas already public in Vedānta teaching are recited here as names of the same knowing.

Meenananda editorial explanation

The Ashram does not treat these great sentences as a technique; they are a hearing.

Bahvṛca Upaniṣad 7, Sanskrit Documents recension. Sanskrit: public-domain Devanagari as encoded at Sanskrit Documents (sanskritdocuments.org). Foundation translations: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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English

It is spoken as ‘prajñānaṃ brahma’ or as ‘ahaṃ brahmāsmi’. It is spoken as ‘tat tvam asi’. It is spoken as ‘ayam ātmā brahma’ or as ‘brahmaiva aham asmi’.

বাংলা

বলা হয় ‘প্রজ্ঞানং ব্রহ্ম’ অথবা ‘অহং ব্রহ্মাস্মি’। বলা হয় ‘তত্ত্বমসি’। বলা হয় ‘অয়মাত্মা ব্রহ্ম’ অথবা ‘ব্রহ্মৈব অহমস্মি’।

हिन्दी

कहा जाता है ‘प्रज्ञानं ब्रह्म’ अथवा ‘अहं ब्रह्मास्मि’। कहा जाता है ‘तत्त्वमसि’। कहा जाता है ‘अयमात्मा ब्रह्म’ अथवा ‘ब्रह्मैव अहम् अस्मि’।