Sacred Learning
Knowledge as the Divine Feminine
Sarasvatī, Vāk, and the question of knowing.
Sarasvatī, Vāk, and the question of knowing.
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Sarasvatīrahasya Upaniṣad 1 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
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The ṛṣis honoured blessed Āśvalāyana and asked: ‘By what means is that knowledge which lights its object? By what sitting-near do you know the real? Blessed one, speak.’
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Sāvitrī Upaniṣad 8 (Sanskrit Documents numbering)
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Who is Savitṛ? Who is Sāvitrī? Mind is Savitṛ; Speech is Sāvitrī. Where mind is, there is speech; where speech is, there is mind. Those two sources are one pair.
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Bhāvanā Upaniṣad, knower-knowledge-known (Sanskrit Documents recension)
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The knower is the hotṛ; knowledge is the fire; the known is the offering. The contemplation of non-difference of knower, knowing and known is Śrīcakra-pūjana.