Define Self-Knowledge — What It Really Means

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Self-knowledge is the knowledge of who you truly are — not your characteristics, personality, or history, but the consciousness that is behind all of it. In Vedānta, we call this ātma-jñānam.

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Vedānta's self-knowledge is not about discovering your preferences or emotional patterns. It's about recognizing that you are unlimited consciousness — sat-cit-ānanda. This changes everything.