...substantialist metaphysic was presented as follows: In the beginning, this [world] was only the self (atman) in the form of a person. Looking around he saw nothing else than the self. He first said 'I am.' Therefore, arose the name of 'I.' Therefore, even to this day when...

...Brahman. It is a form of mysticism that is full of itself: In the beginning this world was Soul (Atman) alone in the form of a person. Looking around, he...and then speaks whatever name he has. Since before (purva) all this world he burned up all evils, therefore he is a person (pur-us-a). He who knows this,...

...element, the Hindu punisha who combines the poles in himself: In the beginning this world was Soul (Atman) alone in the form of a person. Looking around, he...nothing else than himself. He said first: "I am." . . . He was, indeed, as large as a woman and a man closely embraced. He caused that self to fall (pat)...

...universe and who, thus, combines the poles in himself: In the beginning this world was Soul (Atman) alone in the form of a person. Looking around, he...nothing else than himself. He said first "I am."... He was, indeed, as large as a woman and a man closely embraced. He caused that self to fall (pat) into...

...covered over with death, with hunger — for hunger is death ... In the beginning this world was Soul, alone in the form of a Person. Looking around, he...nothing else than himself. He said first: 'I am.' Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad, 1, 1,2; 1, 4, 1 6 In the beginning, my dear, this world was just Being,...

...androgynous Original Man and the Hindu Purusha, who was Soul (ätman), alone at the beginning of the world: 'Looking around he saw nothing else than himself. He said first: "I am" . . . He was, indeed, as large as a woman and a man closely embraced. He caused that self to fall (pat)...