Exegesis of mahAvAkya-s - I

[Raghavendra Hebbalalu]

--- Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <ramakris at EROLS.COM>
wrote:

> declares: atha-mahAvAkyAni chatvAri, yathA praGYAnaM
> brahma,
> aham brahmAsmi, tattvamasi, ayamAtma brahma - The
> mahAvAykyas
> are four, they are 'brahman is consciousness', 'I am
> brahman',
> 'That thou art' and 'This Atma is brahman'. In the
> order
> stated above, they are to be found in chhAndogya
> 6.8.7,
> bR^ihadAraNayaka 1.4.10, aitareya 5.3 and mANDUkya
> 1.2. These
> upanishhad-s belong to the R^ig, shukla-yajus, sAma
> and
> athavaNa veda-s respectively. Thus, the number of
> mahAvAkya-s
> is the same as the number of veda-s. It is
> interesting to note
> that except praGYAnam brahma, the rest equate the
> Atman and
> brahman directly.


Does not tattvamasi belong to Chandogya and pragyAnaM
brahmA to aitareya ?

Regards,
Raghavendra.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!
http://mail.yahoo.com/

--
bhava shankara deshikame sharaNam

Archives : http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l.html
Help     : Email to listmaster at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
Options  : To leave the list send a mail to
           listserv at lists.advaita-vedanta.org with
           SIGNOFF ADVAITA-L in the body.