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Maitreyī
मैत्रेयी
Maitreyī
When Yājñavalkya prepared to renounce the world and divide his property, Maitreyī asked whether wealth would make her immortal; hearing that it would not, she asked for his knowledge instead. The discourse that follows — that all love is love of the Self — is one of Vedānta's founding texts.
Quick facts
- Era
- Upaniṣadic (c. 8th–7th century BCE)
- field
- Vedānta, ātma-vidyā
- sourcing
- well-attested
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