Brahman Dictionary

door of Brahman: Brahmarandhra; also called nirvana chakra.

 A subtle or esoteric aperture in the crown of the head, the opening of sushumna nadi through which kundalini enters in ultimate Self Realization, and the spirit escapes at death. Only the spirits of the truly pure leave the body in this way. Samsaris take a downward course.

See: jnana, kundalini, videhamukti.

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Brahman:

A person who belongs to the first class or caste of human beings. A person who studies the vedas diligently and imbibes all the good qualities recommended therein. A person who knows the science of spirit, religion, liberation, astrology, literature, medicine, etc. - a first class human being. This is not something that can be inherited by birth. It must be earned individually and it is subject to reversal at any time by fall down from the brahminical qualities. The word also refers to spirit in general - the all-pervading aspect of Supreme Divinity that pervades every atom in all time and all space. A brahmana is a knower of brahman or spirit, which is also absolute truth.

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Brahman:

Brahman. Also Brahmam. Impersonal Supreme Being, primal source and ultimate goal of all beings. Thus, It is identical to the Atma.

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Brahman:

The supreme Godhead, beyond all distinctions or forms; ultimate Reality [from 'brih' - that which expands]

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Saguna Brahman: (Sanskrit) "God with qualities." The Personal Lord.

See: Brahman, Parameshvara.

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Brahman (Sanskrit) (from brih to expand)

Sometimes Brahma or Brahm. The one reality, "the impersonal, supreme and uncognizable Principle of the Universe from the essence of which all emanates, and into which all returns, which is incorporeal, immaterial, unborn, eternal, beginningless and endless. It is all-pervading, animating the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom" (TG 62). It involves both essential consciousness and substance, and is the spiritual background of the kosmos, the Cause of all Causes, what is commonly called the Unmanifest Logos: "Brahma, the Noumenon, never rests, as IT never changes and ever IS, though IT cannot be said to be anywhere" (SD 1:374). As the fundamental cosmic fountain of consciousness and spiritual substance, Brahman is the fundamental or cosmic self which, in the case of an individual being, becomes the kshetrajna, the spiritual sun within the individual. Thus the essential self of every being or entity from cosmos to physical atom is this Brahman itself, which is the cause of the familiar saying "tat tvam asi" (you are that).

Through and from Brahman derive the various cosmic Brahmas, the expansion of the One into the many. Brahman does not put forth evolution itself nor create, but exhibits various aspects of itself by means of emanative evolution. The Hindu Puranas say that Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva are the primordial energies of Brahman, the divine neuter. There is a clear distinction between the impersonal, supreme, all-pervading, immanent, beginningless, and endless cosmic principle, whose essence is consciousness-life-substance, and the various Brahmas; for these latter are the periodic manifestations of the highest energies flowing forth at the beginning of each manvantara from the neuter Brahman, and into which these various Brahmas are ingathered again when the cosmic cycle reaches its close and pralaya ensues.

Philosophically, as the supreme cosmic principle of any universe, Brahman is enclosed within its veil or sakti, called pradhana; just as Brahma is similarly infolded within its inseparable sakti called prakriti, and on a still vaster plane mulaprakriti enfolds parabrahman. We have thus: parabrahman-mulaprakriti, Brahman-pradhana, and Brahma- or Purusha-prakriti.

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brahman:

the absolute or ultimate reality

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Brahman:

In Vedic philosophy, the absolute Reality or all-pervasive supreme Principle of the universe.

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Brahman:

Brahman ("that which has grown expansive"): the ultimate Reality (cf. atman, purusha)

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Brahman: The cosmic ocean, where the soul (atman) is disolved upon death. This ocean is the cosmic soul in Hindu tradition.

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Brahman (neuter gender): the impersonal God, devoid of all qualities; the Omnipresent, All-pervading, Transcendent Reality. This supreme Reality is called Brahman when regarded as transcendent, and Atman when regarded as the Life Principle in the individual person. [Brahman is written in plain letters in the text.]

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Brahman (Brahamana): the highest of the four Hindu castes. The priestly caste consists of many sub-castes depending on the area the priest comes from and the duties he performs, such as temple priest, family priest, astrologer, teacher, cook, etc. [Brahman is written in italicized letters in the text.]

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Brahman: The Reality (Atman) spoken of in its universal aspect: that God is both within and without, instantly present and infinitely elsewhere, the dweller in the atom and the abode of all things.

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Brahman:

Brahman:'The universal spirit, soul' (also called Hiranyagarbha: 'of the gold inside' - SB 8-17) Associated with Creation, He is Brahma, with Protection; He is Vishnu, with Dissolution; He is Siva. (BV-30) The Creator in the trinity Brahma, Vishnu (the Preserver), and Shiva (the Destroyer). Impersonal Supreme Being, primal source and ultimate goal of all beings. Thus, it is identical to the Atma.

Brahman: Krishna's impersonal sat-aspect. Is divided in para and apara-brahman relating to having respectively the unseen and the visible of the creation.

 - The omnipresent effulgence in as well the material as the spiritual space known as light.

- The full of the spirit, of the spiritual, in two: saguna-brahman; the word driven by the guna's and nirguna-brahman, the spiritual free from the influence of the modes of nature.

 - The mindful, the spiritual, the spiritual soul in an impersonal sense.

 - As the Absolute Truth the Absolute or Supreme.

 - Also indicating the Veda's.

 - First level of realization preceding the one of paramata.

 - Name for the complete of matter (maha-brahman, maha-tattva).

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Brahman:

The Absolute; the Supreme Reality of Non-dualistic Vedanta.

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Brahman:

Brahman: the Absolute reality; god.

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BRAHMAN: The Absolute Reality; God.

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BRAHMAN: the Absolute Reality

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Brahman: the Absolute or ultimate reality

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Brahman

The impersonal, all-pervasive aspect of the Supreme Truth. Another meaning of the word brahman is the transcendental sound of the Vedas.

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