🪷 प्रज्ञानं ब्रह्म · prajñānaṁ brahma
Mahā-vākya #1 · Ṛg-Veda · mahā-pratīka
Meaning
Pure awareness — the prajñā that illumines every cognition — IS the absolute reality. This is not consciousness OF something; it is consciousness as the substratum of all knowing. The first Mahā-vākya (from the Ṛg-Veda · the oldest Veda) declares the foundational ontology: Reality = Awareness.
Bhagavad-Gītā Anchor
BG 15.15 (sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo · I am seated in the heart of all · from Me come memory, knowledge, and forgetting) — Krishna IS the prajñā that the Aitareya declares Brahman to be.
Source
Read the Aitareya Upaniṣad 3.1.3 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.
Aitareya Upaniṣad 3.1.3local editorial profile and selected quotation; edition collation pending/mahavakyasfour-great-statement hub and Brahman-aperture reading pathBG 15.15heart-seated Krishna as memory, knowledge, and forgettingŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattva/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Brahman as one valid Bindu-aperture/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation