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[[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined it as follows: | [[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined it as follows: | ||
<blockquote>'''Brahma''' (Sk.). The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and [[Brahmâ]], the male creator of the Indian Pantheon. The former, Brahma or Brahman, is the impersonal, supreme and uncognizable Principle of the Universe from the essence of which all emanates, and into which all returns, which is incorporeal, immaterial, unborn, eternal, beginningless and endless. It is all-pervading, animating the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom. [[Brahmâ]] on the other hand, the male and the alleged Creator, exists periodically in his manifestation only, and then again goes into [[pralaya]], i.e., disappears and is annihilated.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 62.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>'''Brahma''' (Sk.). The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and [[Brahmâ]], the male creator of the Indian Pantheon. The former, Brahma or Brahman, is the impersonal, supreme and uncognizable Principle of the Universe from the essence of which all emanates, and into which all returns, which is incorporeal, immaterial, unborn, eternal, beginningless and endless. It is all-pervading, animating the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom. [[Brahmâ]] on the other hand, the male and the alleged Creator, exists periodically in his manifestation only, and then again goes into [[pralaya]], i.e., disappears and is annihilated.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 62.</ref></blockquote> | ||
In the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] view Brahman is not the [[Absolute]] or [[Parabrahman]] but rather the [[Logos#First Logos|unmanifested Logos]]. | In the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] view Brahman is not the [[Absolute]] or [[Parabrahman]] but rather the [[Logos#First Logos|unmanifested Logos]]. | ||
Revision as of 19:59, 2 April 2012
Brahman (devanāgarī: ब्रह्मन्) is a Sanskrit word that in Hinduism denotes the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything in this Universe; that is the one supreme, universal spirit.
H. P. Blavatsky defined it as follows:
Brahma (Sk.). The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and Brahmâ, the male creator of the Indian Pantheon. The former, Brahma or Brahman, is the impersonal, supreme and uncognizable Principle of the Universe from the essence of which all emanates, and into which all returns, which is incorporeal, immaterial, unborn, eternal, beginningless and endless. It is all-pervading, animating the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom. Brahmâ on the other hand, the male and the alleged Creator, exists periodically in his manifestation only, and then again goes into pralaya, i.e., disappears and is annihilated.[1]
In the Theosophical view Brahman is not the Absolute or Parabrahman but rather the unmanifested Logos.
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 62.
Further reading
- Brahman at Theosopedia