All 17 Uses
Brahman
in
Life of Pi
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- There is Brahman, the world soul, the sustaining frame upon which is woven, warp and weft, the cloth of being, with all its decorative elements of space and time.†
Chpt 13-16 *
- There is Brahman nirguna, without qualities, which lies beyond understanding, beyond description, beyond approach; with our poor words we sew a suit for it—One, Truth, Unity, Absolute, Ultimate Reality, Ground of Being— and try to make it fit, but Brahman nirguna always bursts the seams.†
Chpt 13-16
- There is Brahman nirguna, without qualities, which lies beyond understanding, beyond description, beyond approach; with our poor words we sew a suit for it—One, Truth, Unity, Absolute, Ultimate Reality, Ground of Being— and try to make it fit, but Brahman nirguna always bursts the seams.†
Chpt 13-16
- But there is also Brahman saguna, with qualities, where the suit fits.†
Chpt 13-16
- Brahman saguna is Brahman made manifest to our limited senses, Brahman expressed not only in gods but in humans, animals, trees, in a handful of earth, for everything has a trace of the divine in it.†
Chpt 13-16
- Brahman saguna is Brahman made manifest to our limited senses, Brahman expressed not only in gods but in humans, animals, trees, in a handful of earth, for everything has a trace of the divine in it.†
Chpt 13-16
- Brahman saguna is Brahman made manifest to our limited senses, Brahman expressed not only in gods but in humans, animals, trees, in a handful of earth, for everything has a trace of the divine in it.†
Chpt 13-16
- The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.†
Chpt 13-16
- If you ask me how Brahman and atman relate precisely, I would say in the same way the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit relate: mysteriously.†
Chpt 13-16
- But one thing is clear: atman seeks to realize Brahman, to be united with the Absolute, and it travels in this life on a pilgrimage where it is born and dies, and is born again and dies again, and again, and again, until it manages to shed the sheaths that imprison it here below.†
Chpt 13-16
- Brahman Revealed did not go for death.†
Chpt 17-20
- This is more than Brahman with a serious case of stage fright.†
Chpt 17-20
- This is Brahman selfish.†
Chpt 17-20
- This is Brahman ungenerous and unfair.†
Chpt 17-20
- This is Brahman practically unmanifest.†
Chpt 17-20
- If Brahman is to have only one son, He must be as abundant as Krishna with the milkmaids, no?†
Chpt 17-20
- Blessed be you in all your manifestations, Allah-Brahman!†
Chpt 85-88
Definitions:
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(1)
(Brahman) the supreme spirit found in Hinduism
or:
highest rank in the traditional Hindu caste system (more correctly spelled, Brahmin)Although less correct, this word (Brahman) is often used for Brahmin (highest rank in the traditional Hindu caste system) because in Sanskrit they are spelled "brahmán" and "bráhman" respectively. Brahman is associated with god Brahma. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)