Brahman
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1314 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in ancient texts such as the Yajurveda.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Atman, Mahesa, Chandrama, Ananta, gymnosophists, Śiva, Agni, Indra, Vishnu, Brahma, Vayu, Magi, Asclepius
- parent of
- sadhyas
- allied with
- Ganesha
- has aspect
- Sūrya
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Scholars state all deities are typically viewed in Hinduism as "emanations or manifestation of genderless principle called Brahman, representing the many facets of Ultimate Reality".”
#22199 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“all deities are believed to be forms of Brahman, the Ultimate Reality, as popularised by the Advaita philosophy”
#22301 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Mundaka Upanishad describes the origin of the sadhyas from Brahman, the Ultimate Reality.”
#22405 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“You are fire [Agni] and air [Vāyu]. You are the sun [Sūrya] and the moon [Chandrama]. You are Brahman. You are (the three worlds) Bhuloka [earth], Antariksha-loka [space], and Swargaloka [heaven].”
#23154 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“It denotes Brahman as one of six attributes which are prajna, priyam, satyam, ananta, ananda and stithi that are said to manifest themselves in space, which is common to all six bases. Brahman has no initial cause and is known as anadikarana, the uncreated who is not a product, which means Brahman has no material cause and is not the material cause of anything.”
#29127 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001