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Brahman and Absolute Nothingness in Advaita
The Opening Invocation of Brahman
To speak of Brahman is already to fall short. In the Advaita Vedānta tradition, Brahman is the infinite, eternal, unchanging reality that underlies and transcends all phenomena. The Upaniṣads describe it not as an object of thought, not as something to be grasped through senses or concepts, but as pure being-consciousness-bliss (sat–cit–ānanda). Yet even these words are provisional; the sages warn that Brahman is beyond predicate, beyond category, beyond affirmation, and even beyond negation.
Posted in The Unborn and the Absolute: Unborn Mind Zen and Advaita Vedānta in Dialogue
Tagged Absolute Nothingness, Ādi Śaṅkara, Advaita Vedanta, Brahman, Kaṭha Upaniṣad, mahāvākya, moksa, neti-neti, nididhyāsana, Nirguna Brahman, Saguna Brahman, Sat–Cit–Ānanda, śravaṇa, Taittirīya Upaniṣad, tat tvam asi, Upaniṣads
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The Call of the Unborn
The search for truth often begins with a crisis. It might be the collapse of our inherited certainties, the realization of impermanence, or the haunting intuition that all things we cling to—our body, possessions, relationships, even our thoughts—are fragile, fleeting, and bound to vanish. It is at such thresholds that spiritual traditions offer doorways: some open into Being, others into Nothingness, and still others into the space beyond these opposites.
AUM
The sequence used in this series is to firstly place the text, followed by Śaṅkara’s commentary, and then subsequently a commentary in Light of the Unborn. The main translation used will be by Swami Nikhilananda, unless otherwise noted.
Posted in Māṇḍukya Kārikā
Tagged AGAMA PRAKARANA, Atman, AUM, auspicious, Brahman, Hari, Shining Ones, Soundless Sound, Turīya, Unborn Light Reiki
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The Self and Brahman in the Dhammapada
Bhattacharya reinforces the truth that the Buddha brought to fulfillment the Brahmaic Truth that was the New Ātman, the Arahant; this was most clearly presented in the Dhammapada.
Posted in The Divine Ātman
Tagged Brahman, Dhammapada, Self, The Word of the Doctrine
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Agni and the Brahman
Masefield’s final chapter, The New Brahmin, reinforces the truth that the Buddha did not condemn Brahmanism per-se, but that rather it was brought to fulfillment in the new Atman—the arahant: