English Meaning of brahma

Meaning of 'brahma'

n (S) The divine substance or essence as well as cause of the universe. All existencies--the divine triad, gods and demigods, spirits, mankind, worlds and their animals and furniture--are the development or expansion of it, and are, after the consummation of periods, resumed into it; to be, after the lapse of periods of extinction or dormancy in Brahma, again projected into being apparently personal or individual, but actually mere emanation or figurate procession. These effluences, being from the really-subsisting Brahma, the substantive and undisputed entity, are real,--are not, as inexpert Vedantists represent them, ideal and illusory, the phantasmal conceptions of phantasmal thinkers, the deceptions of the darkness of dualism. This expansion then of Brahma (i. e. this universe) being real (real as the very substance of the spiritual and divine monad), the Maya or Illusion of Vedantism is to be understood as lying in the assumption by this expansion of the pretensions of a creation--in its presentation of itself, surely only to the poor being obedient to the inculcations of his senses, his understanding, his intuitions, and his nature, as subsisting distinctly, and as consisting of phenomena distinct and individual. This, even this, is the high doctrine of advaita or the viratadeha--Hindu and European Pantheism. 2 The four Vedas. 3 In comp. A Brahman. 4 Confusion and general pollution from disregard of the divisions of caste or of the distinction of clean and unclean. 5 brahma is freely used in the sense of Marvel, mystery, enigma, ravel or complication, any wondrous and inexplicable matter or thing. 6 m A country, Burmah. brahma milane-ṃsampadane-ṃhati ṃlagane-mprapta hone in. con. To find or obtain some transcendently wonderful or excellent thing.ṃ

Meaning of ब्रह्म

n (S) The divine substance or essence as well as cause of the universe. All existencies--the divine triad, gods and demigods, spirits, mankind, worlds and their animals and furniture--are the development or expansion of it, and are, after the consummation of periods, resumed into it; to be, after the lapse of periods of extinction or dormancy in Brahma, again projected into being apparently personal or individual, but actually mere emanation or figurate procession. These effluences, being from the really-subsisting Brahma, the substantive and undisputed entity, are real,--are not, as inexpert Vedántists represent them, ideal and illusory, the phantasmal conceptions of phantasmal thinkers, the deceptions of the darkness of dualism. This expansion then of Brahma (i. e. this universe) being real (real as the very substance of the spiritual and divine monad), the Máyá or Illusion of Vedántism is to be understood as lying in the assumption by this expansion of the pretensions of a creation--in its presentation of itself, surely only to the poor being obedient to the inculcations of his senses, his understanding, his intuitions, and his nature, as subsisting distinctly, and as consisting of phenomena distinct and individual. This, even this, is the high doctrine of अद्वैत or the विराटदेह--Hindú and European Pantheism. 2 The four Vedas. 3 In comp. A Bráhman. 4 Confusion and general pollution from disregard of the divisions of caste or of the distinction of clean and unclean. 5 ब्रह्म is freely used in the sense of Marvel, mystery, enigma, ravel or complication, any wondrous and inexplicable matter or thing. 6 m A country, Burmah. ब्रह्म मिळणें-सांपडणें-हातीं लागणें-प्राप्त होणें in. con. To find or obtain some transcendently wonderful or excellent thing.

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