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- Ashvalayana approaches Brahma with humility and asks for supreme knowledge that leads to liberation.
- Brahma emphasizes faith, devotion, and meditation as the means to know the truth.
- Renunciation, truthfulness, and self-control are prerequisites for spiritual knowledge.
- Realizing the Atman as pure consciousness is the path to immortality.
- Meditation on the Supreme Self residing in the heart reveals its true nature.
- The Supreme Being is described as formless, beyond sense perception, and infinite.
- The One Self is present in all beings and is the source of everything.
- This Self is the inner controller, subtler than the subtlest, and beyond duality.
- Understanding this Self frees one from all bondage and sorrow.
- By knowing Brahman, one transcends both virtue and vice.
- Brahman is the source of creation, sustenance, and dissolution of the universe.
- It is beyond time, space, and causation—immortal and ever-present.
- Meditation on Lord Shiva as the inner Self leads to liberation.
- Shiva is described as the all-knowing, all-pervading consciousness.
- He appears as Ishwara with form but is truly formless and infinite.
- By meditating on Him, one attains His divine qualities and unity.
- The realized soul becomes one with Brahman and attains Kaivalya (isolation/liberation).
- Such a knower transcends karma and becomes free from rebirth.
- The enlightened one sees the Self in all beings and all beings in the Self.
- After realizing the Self, there is no more delusion or sorrow.
- The liberated soul merges with Brahman and is untouched by worldly activities.
- This supreme knowledge is to be imparted only to qualified seekers.
- Hearing and meditating upon this teaching leads to immediate liberation.
- The Upanishad concludes by affirming the attainment of immortality and Kaivalya through this knowledge.
