brahman (n)
Bedeutungen
- a sacred text
- a text or Mantra used as a spell
- final emancipation
- food
- holy life (esp. continence)
- outpouring of the heart in worshipping the gods
- pious effusion or utterance
- prayer
- religious or spiritual knowledge (opp. to religious observances and bodily mortification such as tapas etc.)
- study
- the Absolute
- the Brahma or one selfexistent impersonal spirit
- the Brāhmanical caste as a body (rarely an individual Brāhman)
- the Brāhmaṇa portion of the Veda
- the class of men who are the repositories and communicators of sacred knowledge
- the Eternal
- the one universal Soul (or one divine essence and source from which all created things emanate or with which they are identified and to which they return)
- the sacred syllable Om
- the sacred word (as opp. to vāc)
- the Self-existent
- the Veda
- wealth
Seme
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