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Aitareya Upanishad

Aitareyopanisad

Embedded in the Aitareya Aranyaka and distinct from the older Aitareya Brahmana, this Upanishad traces the cosmic self's creation of body and senses before concluding that the single agent behind sight, breath, and thought is consciousness itself, identified outright with Brahman.

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