🪷 अहं ब्रह्मास्मि · ahaṁ brahmāsmi

Mahā-vākya #2 · Yajur-Veda (Śukla) · jīva-pratīka

I AM BRAHMAN
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.4.10

Meaning

The first-person seer's realization-declaration. When the boundary between the witness and what is witnessed dissolves, the natural utterance is "ahaṁ brahmāsmi" — not "Brahman is the same as me" but "as the I, I AM Brahman." This is the jīva-pratīka — the seeker's direct identification.

Bhagavad-Gītā Anchor

BG 18.66 (Krishna says "ahaṁ tvā sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi" — He who IS Brahman now claims and frees the soul) · BG 7.7 (mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti) — Krishna's own ahaṁ-brahmāsmi.

Source

Read the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.4.10 page

Sources and Connected Readings

Continue from this great-statement's meaning, Bhagavad-Gītā bridge, and source Upaniṣad to ŚB 1.2.11, Bindu, and philosophy, keeping Brahman-recognition joined to Paramātmā and Bhagavān.

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.4.10local editorial profile and selected quotation; edition collation pending/mahavakyasfour-great-statement hub and Brahman-aperture reading pathBG 18.66Krishna claims and frees the surrendered soulBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · nothing higher than KrishnaŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattva/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Brahman as one valid Bindu-aperture/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation