Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 3.6

3.6

ŚĀ 3,6 = KU 1,6
ṛtur asmi | ārtavo 'smi | ākāśād yoneḥ saṃbhūto bhāryāyai retaḥ, saṃvatsarasya tejobhūtasya bhūtasyātmā | bhūtasya bhūtasya tvam ātmāsi | yas tvam asi so 'ham asmi | tam āha - ko 'ham asmīti | satyam iti brūyāt | kiṃ tad yatsatyam iti | yad anyad devebhyaśca prāṇebhyaś ca tat sat | atha yad devāś ca prāṇāś ca tat satyam | tad ekayā vācābhivyāhriyate sattyam iti | etāvad idaṃ sarvam | idaṃ sarvam asmītyevainaṃ tad āha | tad etac chlokenābhyuktam ||

ŚĀ 3.6 = KU 1.6
‘I am the season; I am born of the seasons. Produced from the womb of space as semen for a wife, the self of the year, made of splendour, the self of every being. You are the self of every being. What you are, that am I.’ He says to him: ‘Who am I?’ He should say: ‘The Real.’ ‘What is that which is the Real?’ ‘What is different from the gods and the breaths, that is the *sat*; and what the gods and the breaths are, that is the *tiyam*. That is expressed by the single utterance *satyam* (the Real). This whole world is just that. You are this whole world’—so indeed he says to him then. This has been expressed by a verse: