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The Bhāvanopaniṣad teaches,
ज्ञानमर्घ्यं ज्ञेयं हविः ज्ञाता होता ज्ञातृज्ञानज्ञेयानांअभेदभावनं श्रीचक्र पूजनम् ॥१०॥
jñānamarghyaṃ jñeyaṃ haviḥ jñātā hotā jñātṛjñānajñeyānāṃabhedabhāvanaṃ śrīcakra pūjanam ||10||
Knowledge is the offering, the objects known are the oblations (into the fire), and the knower is the sacrificer. The nondual contemplation of these three is the worship of the Śrīcakra.
In this striking verse from the Śrīvidyā tradition, the three fundamental aspects of knowing, found pervasively within Indic religious and philosophic traditions as prameya (known), pramāṇa (means of knowing), and pramātṛ (knower), are described in relation to important steps in ritual worship. As upāsakas will know, all three of these aspects are ritually unified during pātrasādhana, but here are presented in a more condensed, and less specialized, way.
Amṛtānanda, in the second verse of his Cidvilāsastava, teaches that all three aspects of knowing are grounded in pure non-dual consciousness. Some 600 years later, Bhāskararāya Makhin commented that one should recognize all three aspects as grounded in consciousness before they are apprehended by the mind to be separate. śrīgurubhyo namaḥ
