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In a received dialogue, Maitreyī asks about wealth, immortality and knowing the knower. Its claims about the self invite further examination.
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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?