nirguna

Or Brahman can be approached nirguna , "without qualities," beyond all description, beyond even the categories of being and non-being.

…fuller treatment of the formless-and-formed question is in Saguna and Nirguna: form and the formless, and the wider idea of one dharma with no single founder or creed is set out in What is Sanatana Dharma?.

The formless is nirguna ; the two are the same reality, approached differently, a point developed in Saguna and Nirguna: form and the formless.

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…

And there are the nirguna saints, who refuse every image and sing only the formless absolute that no temple can hold: Kabir above all, and Ravidas.

Nirguna Brahman is Brahman "without qualities," beyond every description, the absolute as it is in itself.

Hindu iconography is a precise visual language set out in the *shilpa shastras* and *agamas*: the number of arms, the objects held (*ayudhas*), the hand gestures…

…rating knowledge even the beloved form dissolves into the featureless nirguna Brahman that alone is real.