nirguna Brahman
निर्गुण ब्रह्म nirguṇa brahmanBrahman without qualities or form: the Absolute as it is in itself, beyond all name, attribute and conception, the ground behind every deity and every form. The counterpart to saguna Brahman.
Where this term appears
- Ishvara, Bhagavan and Brahman: How Hinduism Conceives God Essentials
On this reading the ladder runs upward from the personal to the impersonal. Bhagavan is a doorway; nirguna Brahman is the room.
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss Essentials
For Advaita, the non-dual school of Shankara, sat-chit-ananda is the nature of the formless, attributeless Absolute, nirguna Brahman.
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
…rating knowledge even the beloved form dissolves into the featureless nirguna Brahman that alone is real.
- Saguna and Nirguna: Form and the Formless Deities
Nirguna Brahman is the divine without qualities , nirguna meaning "without attributes." This is the infinite reality that overflows every name, that no image contains, that the Upanishads approach only by negat…
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
Nirguna Brahman is Brahman "without qualities," beyond every description, the absolute as it is in itself.
- What is Vedanta? Philosophy
Only Brahman is ultimately real — and Brahman without qualities, nirguna Brahman, pure being-consciousness beyond every attribute and every distinction.
- The Bengal Renaissance And Ramakrishna Treatise
…h the Advaita Vedanta practices that culminated in his recognition of nirguna Brahman , and through the broader synthesis of paths that his teaching would later articulate.