The Mahavakyas are:
prajñānam brahma - "Brahman is the supreme knowledge"(Aitareya Upanishad 3.3 of the Rig Veda)
ayam ātmā brahma - "I am this Self (Atman) that is is Brahman" (Mandukya Upanishad 1.2 of the Atharva Veda)
tat tvam asi - "Thou art That" (Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7 of the Sama Veda)
aham brahmāsmi - "I am Brahman", or "I am Divine"(Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.10 of the Yajur Veda)
People who are initiated into sannyasa in Advaita Vedanta are being taught the four [principal] mahavakyas as four mantras, "to attain this highest of states in which the individual self dissolves inseparably in Brahman".
Other Mahavakyas
Brahma satyam jagan mithya - Brahman is real; the world is unreal - Vivekachudamani
Ekam evadvitiyam brahma - Brahman is one, without a second - Chāndogya Upaniṣad
Soham - You are the same as I am - Soham (Sanskrit)
Sarvam khalvidam brahma - All of this is brahman - Brahman
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prajñānam brahma - "Brahman is the supreme knowledge"(Aitareya Upanishad 3.3 of the Rig Veda)
ayam ātmā brahma - "I am this Self (Atman) that is is Brahman" (Mandukya Upanishad 1.2 of the Atharva Veda)
tat tvam asi - "Thou art That" (Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7 of the Sama Veda)
aham brahmāsmi - "I am Brahman", or "I am Divine"(Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.10 of the Yajur Veda)
People who are initiated into sannyasa in Advaita Vedanta are being taught the four [principal] mahavakyas as four mantras, "to attain this highest of states in which the individual self dissolves inseparably in Brahman".
Other Mahavakyas
Brahma satyam jagan mithya - Brahman is real; the world is unreal - Vivekachudamani
Ekam evadvitiyam brahma - Brahman is one, without a second - Chāndogya Upaniṣad
Soham - You are the same as I am - Soham (Sanskrit)
Sarvam khalvidam brahma - All of this is brahman - Brahman
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