Aham Brahmasmi - I Am Brahman
The declaration of identity between individual and cosmic consciousness.
Aham Brahmasmi is the direct realization that one's true self is not the limited ego but infinite Brahman. This knowledge destroys ignorance and reveals our eternal nature.
I am Brahman.
This mahavakya reveals the ultimate truth of non-duality.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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- What the Upanishads say about loneliness
The declaration "I am Brahman" belongs to the section of the Brihadaranyaka that opens with a self alone in the beginning, afraid because it was alone, and unhappy. The tradition starts its account of solitude by admitting that being alone frightened even the first being there was.