Brahman in the Śrīmad Devī Bhāgavatam: The ultimate, unconditioned reality underlying all existence. Neither a deity nor a person, but the infinite ground of being itself. Distinct from Brahma the creator god.
The ultimate, unconditioned reality underlying all existence. Neither a deity nor a person, but the infinite ground of being itself. Distinct from Brahma the creator god.
On this site, Brahman is treated as a reading aid rather than a final doctrinal definition: use it to move from a question about a term into the chapters where the term actually appears.
…erce elephant, the winter season, by its sharp nails, as testified by the budding of Palâsa flowers. 14-18. O Brahman! See how beautiful and excellent has become this hermitage with the presence of the Goddess Spring Lak s mi? O Devarsî! The Raktâs'oka flower is the…
…iously as Mâyâ, Vidyâ; but viewed really from the point of Brahma n, there is no such thing as Mâyâ; only one Brahman exists, I am that Brahma, of the nature of Intelligence. I create this whole world on this Unchangeable Eternal (Mountain-like) Brahma, (composed of…
…ealise (by reasoning) the idea conveyed by that sentence. By the word "Tat" is meant Myself, of the nature of Brahman; and by the word "Tvam" is meant "Jîva" embodied self and the word "Asi" indicates, no doubt, the identity of these two. The two words "Tat" and "Tva…
…n My Brahma Nature with an unfeigned devotion. (How the knowledge of that Formless Existence and Imperishable Brahman arises, now hear.) He is manifest, near, yea, even moving in the hearts of all beings. He is the well-known Highest Goal. Know that all this whatever…
…nd power in detail. 5-26. Nârâyana spoke :-- “O Devar s i! The Mûlâ Prak r iti, of the nature of Mâyâ of Para Brahman is an eternal entity (the nabho ma nd al); Time (Kâla), the ten quarters, the Universe Egg, the Goloka and, lower than this, the Vaiku nt ha Dhâma al…