Summary of the Book
Self-Knowledge, also known as Atma Vidya or Brahma Vidya, is Arsha Vidya, meaning the knowledge of Rishis. It forms the subject matter of Vedanta. It is world’s most ancient knowledge which has survived to this day in its pristine purity because of its validity and vitality. It imparts the knowledge that the self, the first person singular ‘I’ as in ‘I am’, is Purnam or limitless fullness, meaning a fullness which is beyond all limitations such as decay, disease and death and that its nature is Ananda meaning happiness.
