🪷 अहं ब्रह्मास्मि · ahaṁ brahmāsmi
Mahā-vākya #2 · Yajur-Veda (Śukla) · jīva-pratīka
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.