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Parabrahman (devanāgarī: परब्रह्मन्) from para "beyond" and Brahman "universal self or spirit", is a term often used in Hindu philosophy, especially in Advaita Vedanta, for the highest deity, or, rather, the Absolute Reality that is beyond gods.
In the writings of H. P. Blavatsky parabrahman is frequently used as a synonym for the Absolute or the Be-ness:
Parabrahm (the One Reality, the Absolute) is the field of Absolute Consciousness, i.e., that Essence which is out of all relation to conditioned existence, and of which conscious existence is a conditioned symbol. But once that we pass in thought from this (to us) Absolute Negation, duality supervenes in the contrast of Spirit (or consciousness) and Matter, Subject and Object.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, Ill: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 15
Further reading
- Parabrahman at Theosopedia