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> there are 5 brahmans mentioned.....

> 1) Mahat tattva as brahman

> 2) Yajna as brahman

> 3) Jiva as brahman

> 4.) Brahmajyoti as brahman

> 5.) Paramatma as brahman.

> Can you kindly clarify why these 5 types of brahman.

 

vadanti tat tattva-vidas

tattvaˆ yaj jñ€nam advayam

brahmeti param€tmeti

bhagav€n iti abdyate

TRANSLATION

Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual

substance Brahman, Param€tm€ or Bhagav€n.

PURPORT

The Absolute Truth is both subject and object, and there is no qualitative

difference there. Therefore, Brahman, Param€tm€ and Bhagav€n are

qualitatively one and the same. The same substance is realized as impersonal

Brahman by the students of the Upaniads, as localized Param€tm€ by the

HiraŠyagarbhas or the yog…s, and as Bhagav€n by the devotees. In other

words, Bhagav€n, or the Personality of Godhead, is the last word of the

Absolute Truth. Param€tm€ is the partial representation of the Personality

of Godhead, and impersonal Brahman is the glowing effulgence of the

Personality of Godhead, as the sun rays are to the sun-god. Less intelligent

students of either of the above schools sometimes argue in favor of their

own respective realization, but those who are perfect seers of the Absolute

Truth know well that the above three features of the one Absolute Truth are

different perspective views seen from different angles of vision.

As it is explained in the first loka of the First Chapter of the

Bh€gavatam, the Supreme Truth is self-sufficient, cognizant and free from

the illusion of relativity. In the relative world the knower is different

from the known, but in the Absolute Truth both the knower and the known are

one and the same thing. In the relative world the knower is the living

spirit or superior energy, whereas the known is inert matter or inferior

energy. Therefore, there is a duality of inferior and superior energy,

whereas in the absolute realm both the knower and the known are of the same

superior energy. There are three kinds of energies of the supreme energetic.

There is no difference between the energy and energetic, but there is a

difference of quality of energies. The absolute realm and the living

entities are of the same superior energy, but the material world is inferior

energy. The living being in contact with the inferior energy is illusioned,

thinking he belongs to the inferior energy. Therefore there is the sense of

relativity in the material world. In the Absolute there is no such sense of

difference between the knower and the known, and therefore everything there

is absolute.

SB 1.2.11

 

Sarvaˆ khalv idaˆ brahma: “There is nothing but the Lord, and He is one

without a second.” - purport SB 3.5.6