🪷 प्रज्ञानं ब्रह्म · prajñānaṁ brahma
Mahā-vākya #1 · Ṛg-Veda · mahā-pratīka
prajñānaṁ brahma Source-Anchor Spine
This great-statement is route-linked to its own Upaniṣad, its exact Gītā bridge, ŚB 1.2.11's advaya-tattva synthesis, and the Bindu/Philosophy constitutional pages. The Brahman-recognition remains joined to Paramātmā and Bhagavān instead of becoming a detached abstraction.
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.