shabda-brahman
शब्दब्रह्मन् śabda-brahmanSound as the absolute; Brahman approached as, or through, sound. The conviction that the right sounds touch ultimate reality rather than merely labeling things.
Where this term appears
- What is a Mantra? Worship
Sound as shabda-brahman , the absolute itself approached through, or as, sound.
- Is Sanskrit the mother of all languages? Journal
Bhartrihari, in the Vakyapadiya , moved the question onto different ground altogether and identified the ground of reality itself as shabda-brahman , the absolute as word.
- Anahata: The Unstruck Sound Treatise
…struck sound, the continuous subtle resonance of the absolute itself, shabda-brahman , the word that is the ground of being.
- Shabda-Brahman: The Word as the Absolute Treatise
… consciousness, meaning, and the manifest world proceeds. He calls it shabda-brahman , the Word as Brahman.
- The Divine as Music Treatise
Sacred sound does not stop at the mantra; it carries into music. Nada-Brahman is the doctrine, carried above all by the medieval musicologists, that ultimate…
- The Four Levels of Speech Treatise
Behind every individual sphota , Bhartrihari held, stands shabda-brahman itself, the one Word.
- The Great Mantras Treatise
…ver and over, by anyone, with no initiation, no fire, no secret. From shabda-brahman to a name shouted in joy in the street.
- The mantra withheld Treatise
… Vakyapadiya in the fifth century argued that the ultimate reality is Shabda-Brahman , the Absolute as Word, all meaning unfolding from an undivided burst of sense into the spoken sentence.