Neti neti · not this, not this

Yājñavalkya's method: every description offered of the self is denied, not because the self is nothing but because it is the thing doing the describing and can never appear as an object of its own description.

Apophasis, seven centuries before Plato's "beyond being" and fifteen before Ein Sof. And the reasoning differs in a way worth noticing: the Greek and Jewish refusals are about a source too high to be predicated, and this one is about a knower that cannot get around in front of itself.