Knowledge of the self is freedom from the self || On Advaita Vedanta (2019)

Acharya Prashant
8 min readMay 3, 2024

अन्यत्र धर्मादन्यत्राधर्मादन्यत्रास्मात्कृताकृतात् । अन्यत्र भूताच्च भव्याच्च यत्तत्पश्यसि तद्वद ॥

anyatra dharmādanyatrādharmādanyatrāsmātkṛtākṛtāt anyatra bhūtācca bhavyācca yattatpaśyasi tadvada

Nachiketa said: That which you see as other than righteousness and unrighteousness, other than all this cause and effect, other than what has been and what is to be — tell me, that.

~ Katha Upanishad, Chapter 1, Valli 2, Verse 14

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सर्वे वेदा यत्पदमामनन्ति तपाँ सि सर्वाणि च यद्वदन्ति । यदिच्छन्तो ब्रह्मचर्यं चरन्ति तत्ते पद्ँ संग्रहेण ब्रवीम्योमित्येतत् ॥

sarve vedā yatpadamāmananti tapāṁsi sarvāṇi ca yadvadanti yadicchanto brahmacaryaṃ caranti tatte padṁ saṃgraheṇa bravīmyomityetat

Yama said: The goal which all the Vedas declare, which all austerities aim at and which all men desire when they lead the life of continence, I will tell you briefly: it is AUM.

~ Katha Upanishad, Chapter 1, Valli 2, Verse 15

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एतद्ध्येवाक्शरं ब्रह्म एतद्ध्येवाक्शरं परम् । एतद्ध्येवाक्शरं ज्ञात्वा यो यदिच्छति तस्य तत् ॥

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