brahman
ब्रह्मन् brahmanIn the Upanishads and Vedanta, the absolute: the unchanging ground and totality of all that exists, from which the worlds arise and into which they return. It is distinct from Brahma the creator-god and from the brahmana priestly class.
Where this term appears
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
And there is something that underlies the entire universe, the single reality from which everything comes and into which everything returns. The tradition calls that brahman .
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
The Vedas are the four oldest scriptures of the Hindu tradition: the Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda. The tradition classes them as shruti, 'that which…
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
The ground of all being If the atman is the self at the innermost point, Brahman is the absolute at the outermost.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
…n the self that transmigrates and the ultimate reality, see atman and Brahman; for the goal itself, see what moksha is; and for what the tradition holds happens between lives, see what happens after death.
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
The fourteen lokas , Meru, the ring-oceans, the billion-year days: all of it is the appearance that the one reality, Brahman, throws up and reabsorbs.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
The Upanishadic teaching tat tvam asi , "that thou art," points to this Self as one with the ground of all being. The whole of that claim is unfolded in Atman and Brahman.
- How many gods does Hinduism have? Deities
…e deities are forms, faces, or powers of one ultimate reality, called Brahman in its formless fullness and Ishvara when approached as a personal Lord.
- Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic? Essentials
Its name is Brahman , from a root meaning "to grow, to be vast": the single, boundless ground of all being, awareness, and existence.