6: "If one knows _brahma_ as _asat_ he becomes only _asat_ (non-existence); if he knows that '_brahma_ is' (_i.e._, a _sad brahma_), people know him as thence existing." Personal _[=a]tm[=a]_ is here insisted on ("He wished 'may I be many'"); and from _[=a]tm[=a]_, the conscious _brahma_, in highest heaven, came the ether (2.

1, 6).

Yet, immediately afterwards: "In the beginning was the non-existent; thence arose the existent; and That made for himself an ego (spirit, conscious life, _[=a]tm[=a]; tad [=a]tm[=a]nain svayam akuruta_, 2.
7).

In man _brahma_ is the sun-_brahma_.

Here too one finds the _brahma[n.]a[h.] parimaras_ (3.10.4 = K[=a]ush[=i]t.