Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 13.1

13.1

ŚĀ 13,1
athāto vairāgyasaṃskṛte śarīre brahmayajñaniṣṭho bhavet | apa punarmṛtyuṃ jayati | tad u ha vātmā draṣṭavyaḥ śrotavyo mantavyo nididhyāsitavya iti | tam etaṃ vedānuvacanena vividiṣanti brahmacaryeṇa tapasā śraddhayā yajñenānāśakena ceti māṇḍūkeyaḥ | tasmād evaṃvic chānto dānta uparatas titikṣuḥ śraddhāvitto bhūtvātmany evātmānaṃ paśyed iti māṇḍavyaḥ | yo 'yaṃ vijñānamayaḥ puruṣaḥ prāṇeṣu sa eṣa neti nety ātmā na gṛhya idaṃ brahmedaṃ kṣatram ime devā ime vedā ime lokā imāni sarvāṇi bhūtānīdaṃ sarvaṃ yad ayam ātmā | sa eṣa tat tvam asīty ātmāvagamyo 'haṃ brahmāsmīti | tad etad brahmāpūrvam aparam anaparam anantaram abāhyam ayam ātmā brahma sarvānubhūr ity anuśāsanam iti yājñavalkyaḥ | tad etan nāputrāya nānantevāsine vā brūyād iti | ya imām adbhiḥ parigṛhītāṃ vasumatīṃ dhanasya pūrṇāṃ dadyād idam eva tato bhūya idam eva tato bhūya ity anuśāsanam | tām etām upaniṣadaṃ vedaśiro na yathā kathaṃ cana vadet | tad etad ṛcābhyuditam ||

Now, then, when the body is purified by dispassion, one should become devoted to the recitation of the Veda (brahmayajña). He wards off re-death. And so indeed: 'The self is to be seen, to be heard, to be reflected upon, to be meditated upon.' 'They seek to know him through the study of the Veda, through chaste studenthood (brahmacarya), through austerity, through faith, through sacrifice, and through fasting'—so says Māṇḍūkeya. 'Therefore, knowing thus, having become calm, controlled, tranquil, patient, and possessing faith, one should see the self in the self alone'—so says Māṇḍavya. 'That person here who consists of consciousness among the breaths, he is this self: not this, not that. It is ungraspable. This Brahman, this nobility, these deities, these Vedas, these worlds, all these beings, all this is what this self is.' 'That is to be understood as the self: "That thou art," "I am Brahman."' 'This Brahman is without before, without after, without inner, without outer; this self is Brahman, experiencing everything'—such is the instruction, so says Yājñavalkya. 'This one should not tell to one who is not a son, nor to one who is not a pupil.' 'Even if one should give this earth encircled by the waters and filled with wealth, this alone is greater than that, this alone is greater than that'—such is the instruction. This secret teaching (upaniṣad), the head of the Veda, one must not speak at random. This has been expressed in a verse: