Brahman
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Brahman the idea
O Brahman · the supreme Brahman
in the texts
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Creator deity credited with producing the gracious creation through contemplation of grace, abandoning the prior substrate.
] Brahman created the gracious [creation] apart from the form-subtle-element, having produced [it] through the contemplation of grace, by abandoning the prior substrate.
] The gracious creation (anugraha-sarga).
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The supreme reality/deity attained through disciplined recitation and yoga; also addressed as a personal figure answering metaphysical questions.
By reciting the Sāma chant according to the rules, without interruption, and with attention, through its practice one attains the supreme Brahman.
If this is so, O Brahman, how is he born into sinful wombs?