The direct exposition we find in the Vedas, the fruit of the highest human knowledge and wisdom, the kernel of which has at last reached us in the Upanishads as the greatest gift of this century. It is expressed in various ways, but especially by making all the beings in the world, living and lifeless, pass successively before the view of the student, and pronouncing over every one of them that word which has become a formula, and as such has been called the Mahavakya:
Aurkezpen zuzena Vedetan, giza ezagutza eta jakituria gorenaren fruituan aurkitzen dugu, zeinaren muina Upanishad-etan mende honetako oparirik handiena bezala azkenik iritsi baitzaigu, batez ere ikaslearen begiradaren aurrean munduko izaki guztiak, bizidunak eta bizigabeak, ilaran pasarazi baitira, eta horietako bakoitzaren gain formula bihurturiko eta horrelakoa den heinean Mahavakya deitu zaion hitza adierazi da: