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Brahman is a key concept found in the Vedas, ... same pronunciation as above), means priest; in this usage the word is usually rendered in English as "Brahmin".
Brahman exists in two forms – the material form, and the immaterial formless. [71] The material form is changing, unreal. The immaterial formless is not changing, real. The immortal formless is truth, the truth is the Brahman, the Brahman is the light, the light is the Sun which is the syllable Om as the Self. [72] [73] [I]
Salutation to Brahman. Salutation to you, O Vayu. You, indeed, are the immediate Brahman. You alone I shall call the direct Brahman. I shall call you righteousness. I shall call you truth. May He protect me. May He protect the reciter*. May He protect me. May He protect the reciter. Om, peace, peace, peace! [4]
But these are various designations of cognition. [3] It is brahman; it is Indra; it is all the gods. It is [...] earth, wind, space, the waters, and the lights [...] It is everything that has life [...] Knowledge is the eye of all that, and on knowledge it is founded. Knowledge is the eye of the world, and knowledge, the foundation. Brahman is ...
Between Brahman and aham-brahma lies the entire temporal universe experienced by the ignorant as a separate entity (duality). [35] Vidyāranya in his Panchadasi (V.4) explains: Infinite by nature, the Supreme Self is described here by the word Brahman (lit. ever expanding; the ultimate reality); the word asmi denotes the identity of aham and ...
The Smarta Tradition accepts two concepts of Brahman, which are the saguna Brahman – the Brahman with attributes, and nirguna Brahman – the Brahman without attributes. [74] The nirguna Brahman is the unchanging Reality, however, the saguna Brahman is posited as a means to realizing this nirguna Brahman. [75]
Soham or Sohum (सो ऽहम् so'ham [1]) is a Hindu mantra, literally meaning "That (is) I" in Sanskrit, implying "I am that". [2] [3]In Vedic philosophy it means identifying Brahman with the universe or ultimate Brahman.
Brahman, as the Atman, expresses itself when the man is awake, he is the bird, the crab, and the lotus. [ 21 ] [ 24 ] While the bird and lotus analogy for the human soul is commonly found in Vedic literature, this is the first and isolated mention of crab analogy, states Deussen. [ 25 ]