Thus there are three hands in this lithograph – Brahman the undepicted hand of the artist ; LH and RH both simultaneously appearing as Ātman, the soul, the participator and “I”, the individual consciousness, the observer.

◊       Let us quickly look at the ‘etymology’ of aham [17] …..it is given in explicit detail in the Aitareya Āranyaka[18] in the 2^nd part, 3^rd adhyāy, 6^th to the 8^th verse. The ‘Hymn of Creation’ comes next, which is the Aitareya Upanisad itself, from the 4^th to the 6^th adhyāy of the Āranyaka.…

……. ‘a’ is the whole of speech and being manifested through the mutes and the sibilants it becomes manifold and various. If uttered in a whisper it is this prāna, if forcefully, that body – śarīra. Therefore it is hidden, as hidden as the previous body encapsulated in this prāna . But spoken forcefully it is that body and visible, for body is visible.