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The MahaVakyas
The four mahavakyas of the vedas:
TatTvamAsi (That Thou
Art)
PrajnanamBrahma (Perception
is Brahman)
AhamBrahmasmi (I am
Brahman)
AyamAtmaBrahma (Atman
is Brahman)
The nearest English translation of Brahman is what the philosopher would call the Ultimate Reality. All the
four mahavakyas emphasize
the fact that the perceiver, the perception, and the perceived are the same. Some thinkers,
like Ervin Schrodinger and Aldous Huxley, consider this as the most basic fact of physics.