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Selected Upanishadic dialogues ask about the self, ultimate reality and liberation. They are read one by one, not as a single doctrine that all their interpreters share.
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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?