[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Āraṇyakas (forest texts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka) › [Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki) › 3.6 # Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 3.6 Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka 3.6 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.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: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.3.5) - [Next: 3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.3.7) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki~en-mt.3.6) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.kausitaki.1.6.12) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.3.6) · Pramāṇa