mahavakya
महावाक्य mahāvākyaA 'great utterance': one of the short Upanishadic sentences (e.g. tat tvam asi, aham brahmasmi) the later tradition took to condense the identity of Atman and Brahman.
Where this term appears
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
…especially, distilled this into a handful of short sentences it calls mahavakyas , "great utterances." Four of them are usually named, one drawn from each of the four Vedas, and they function as compressed seed…
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
…ition gathered four short sentences that state it and called them the mahavakyas , the "great sayings." The most quoted comes from the sixth chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad , the dialogue in which Uddalaka i…
- Tat tvam asi: three readings Philosophy
It became one of the mahavakyas , the great sayings the later tradition treated as the load-bearing statements of the Upanishads.
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
… That last phrase is tat tvam asi , "that thou art." It is one of the mahavakyas , the "great sayings," that the later tradition gathered as the load-bearing statements of non-duality.
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss Essentials
The Aitareya compresses this into one of the tradition's great utterances, a mahavakya or "great saying": prajnanam brahma , "consciousness is Brahman".
- The Char Dham Temples
The four mathas form their own ordered system, the amnaya mathas, each assigned a Veda and a mahavakya , a "great saying" of the Upanishads.
- What is Moksha? Essentials
The school anchors this in the great sayings, the mahavakyas , of the Upanishads.
- The Aitareya Upanishad: the Self that entered through the skull Treatise
It is one of the four mahavakyas , the great sayings the tradition draws one from each Veda, and this is the Rig Veda's.