Mahawake Analysis of the Mahabak

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The mahawake is the essence, the heart of adwita vedanta. One has been one sentence from one of the openisions of one of each of the four wetes. Means, you are brahman, you are that. That thou art. This very self is brahman. Or in the italia, panisad braganum brahma,. The awareness that we find within ourselves. If you would truly know what it is, you would find the infiniteu woud find brahman there.

Sage Uddalaka asks his son Svetaketu: What is that knowledge by which we hear the unhearable, perceive what cannot be perceived and know what cannot be known? Inspired from this story from the Chandogya Upanishad, Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the great saying (mahavakya) - Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art). This discourse is also inspired from a verse from the Brihadharanyaka Upanishad (Mantra 4.4.12) as taught in the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya: "If a man knows the Self as ‘I am this,’ then desiring what and for whose sake will he suffer in the wake of the body?" Mantra 4.4.12: आत्मानं चेद्विजानीयादयमस्मीति पूरुषः । किमिच्छन्कस्य कामाय शरीरमनुसंज्वरेत् ॥ १२