Aitareya Upanishad

  ======================================================================================================= Saturday 26 September 2026, 06:15. Books Vedanta&Upanishads The Essence of the Aitare - 1.ya and Taittiriya Upanishads: 1.3 Chapter 2: The Atman Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================================= Chapter 2: The Atman This final substance is constituted of the essence of everything, and it is our very Self. It is called the Atman. It is the Atman because it is the root substance of all things which are in the position of an effect. The Atman is the substance of everyone and everything. It is the Total Substance of all created beings, and so it is called Brahman. The Total Substance is Brahman, and the same thing conceived as the essence of particular beings is known as the Atman. Even as there cannot be a cause behind the final cause, there cannot be an Atman behind the Atman, for the very basic substan...

======================================================================================================= Wednesday 02,Aug 2026, 07:25. Books Vedanta&Upanishads The Essence of the Aitareya and Taittiriya Upanishads: 1.3 Chapter 1: Introduction -3. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================================= Now, we gradually move to a philosophical realm from the ordinary social and empirical level of thought on which we have been traversing up to this time. Philosophy is a study of causes, rather ultimate causes, and an explanation of everything in terms of these causes. Sometimes they call it metaphysical thinking. Whatever be the name we give to it, it is the study of ultimate causes and an explanation of everything through these. The ultimate causes should be such that there should not be causes behind these causes; else they would not be the ultimate causes. The meaning of an ultimate cause is that it stands by its o...