Aitareya Upanishad

The Aitareya Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads.

Quotes

Olivelle, Patrick (1998). The Early Upanishads. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512435-9. 

• Knowledge is the eye of all that,

and on knowledge it is founded.

Knowledge is the eye of the world,

and knowledge, the foundation.

Brahman is knowing (prajñānaṁ brahma).

• 3.3

• It is with this self consisting of knowledge that he went up from this world

and, having obtained all his desire in the heavenly world up there, became immortal.

• 3.4

• In the beginning this world was the self (atman), one alone, and there was no other being at all that blinked an eye.

He thought to himself: "Let me create the worlds."

• 1.1