Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A religious formula or prayer and the holy or sacred power in it and in the officiating priest.
- noun The holy or sacred power that is the source and sustainer of the universe.
- noun The single absolute being pervading the universe and found within the individual; Atman.
- noun A member of the highest of the four major castes of traditional Indian society, responsible for officiating at religious rites and studying and teaching the Vedas.
- noun Any of a breed of beef cattle developed in the southern United States from stock originating in India and having a hump between the shoulders and a pendulous dewlap. They can tolerate heat and are often used for crossbreeding.
- adjective Of or relating to the caste of Brahmans.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the sacred or sacerdotal caste among the Hindus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindus.
- noun (Zoöl.) the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindus.
- noun a person from an old, respected, and usually wealthy family who has considerable social or political influence; -- a term used especially in New England.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Hinduism A
concept ofHinduism . Brahman is the unchanging,infinite ,immanent , andtranscendent reality which is the Divine Ground of allmatter ,energy ,time ,space ,being , and everything beyond in thisUniverse . The nature of Brahman is described astranspersonal ,personal andimpersonal by different philosophical schools. - proper noun dated a
Brahmin
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category
- noun a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas
- noun any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding
- noun a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family)
Etymologies
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Examples
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That in declarations such as 'Thou art that' and 'this Self is Brahman,' the words _thou_ and _Self_, no less than the words _that_ and _Brahman_, denote Brahman in so far as having the individual souls for its body, and that thus the two sets of words denote fundamentally one and the same thing, has been explained previously.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Emerson referred to this ultimate reality as "that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other," while Aurobindo used the term Brahman, which of course has a long and venerable history in Indian philosophy.
Tantra and Transcendentalism – Emerson and Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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In the Hindu Upanishads, we find this passage about the ultimate nature of Reality, which they call Brahman:
unalog 2008
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The spiritual recognize our common divinity, encoded in what Hindus call Brahman and Christians call the Holy Spirit.
Philip Goldberg: Reflections On Governor Bentley's Sister-Brother Act Philip Goldberg 2011
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The spiritual recognize our common divinity, encoded in what Hindus call Brahman and Christians call the Holy Spirit.
Philip Goldberg: Reflections On Governor Bentley's Sister-Brother Act Philip Goldberg 2011
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In Classical Hinduism, Brahman is the unchanging "reality" behind the present world, Atman the individual entity (the common translation "soul" is misleading), and Maya the illusion that prevents us from realizing that Brahman and Atman are one and the same.
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In Classical Hinduism, Brahman is the unchanging "reality" behind the present world, Atman the individual entity (the common translation "soul" is misleading), and Maya the illusion that prevents us from realizing that Brahman and Atman are one and the same.
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Our Brahman is strong in love-making; he complains of the pains of separation in this phenomenal universe; he revels in youth, “twin-brother to mirth,” and beauty which has illuminating powers; he foully reviles old age and he alternately praises and abuses the sex, concerning which more presently.
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Before a wedding they call a Brahman and worship him as a god, the ceremony being known as Deo Brahman.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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The name Brahman or Brahma is said to be from the root _brih_ or
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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