#persistence

? Is Yājñavalkya’s unseen seer an answer to the problem of personal identity?

I am doing an MA in Sanskrit and Indian philosophy in Pune, and something about how Indian theories of self get slotted into Western debates bothers me. In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, Yājñavalkya says you cannot see the seer of seeing or think…