Brahman
idea · 4 works · 16 mentions · 44 anchored passages
brahman · brahman-power · Brahmā · brahminical radiance · greatest Brahman · lustre of a brahman · nirañjana · niṣkala Brahman · parabrahman · the Brahman
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The cosmic/priestly power Brahman, personified in the cosmogonic hymn as a self-generating, world-opening principle.
Brahman seized Brahman up from the midst, rising from low to high, and self-power stood forth.
Brahman, born first in the east, the seer Vena illumined it beyond the limits with brilliant light.
Brahman is replete with long life;
Rigveda
Sacred formulaic power identified with Indra in a single declarative verse.
Indra is brahman, Indra is the seer, Indra is many and much-invoked;
The Brahmā-student wanders, pouring out poison;
These were the first to speak about the Brahman's offence:
Paramārthasāra
The absolute, non-dual ground of being, realized through contemplation as identical with the Self.
Like space [present] within and without pots and the like, {{brahman|the absolute}} abides in all bodily lumps.
the {{brahman|the absolute, the non-dual ground of being}} which, [reflected as] residing in the intellect, is apprehended — that, O disciple, is what is to be understood.
As water [merges] into water, milk into milk, breeze into wind, so, by contemplation (bhāvanā), one attains to becoming-of-the-same-substance with the stainless {{brahman|the absolute}}.
Brahmabindūpaniṣad
The supreme, partless, distinctionless ultimate reality that the passage identifies as the goal of realization and as identical with the true Self.
Then Brahman, freed from all partiality [toward either alternative], is attained.
That Brahman—partless, undefiled, peaceful—is declared [to be realized as] "That Brahman am I.
One who has become accomplished in the word-Brahman attains the parabrahman (the supreme, transcendent Brahman).