Upanishad
One of a collection of Hindu sacred treatises, written in Sanskrit, connected with the Vedas but composed later, about 800–200 BC. Metaphysical and ethical, their doctrine equated the atman (self) with the Brahman (supreme spirit) – ‘Tat tvam asi’ (‘Thou art that’) – and developed the theory of the transmigration of souls.
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