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What does the selected account mean by the self, and how does it connect knowing with liberation? Later interpreters disagree about how the self relates to brahman.
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Guided course · Module 7 · Lesson 37
Self and ultimate reality: two Vedānta accounts
Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja read the same scriptural words about self and brahman in different ways, and give different accounts of unity, difference and the knowledge that liberates.
Guided course · Module 3 · Lesson 6
What could it mean to know the self?
Maitreyī asks what wealth can promise, and the answer she hears turns to knowing the knower. What does this Upanishadic account of the self explain, and what does it leave hard to understand?