Brahman in the Upanishads- Part II

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Brahman in the Upanishads- Part II

 

Many are the ways in which Brahman is extolled in the Upanishads. The following are a few most commonly found descriptions, by meditating upon which one may develop some understanding of this vast Phenomenon.

 

1. Brahman is the Reality. He is the Absolute Truth. All else is unreal and mere illusion, a mere shadow that disappears when the Sun shines.

 

2. Brahman is constant and fixed. He is unchangeable, immutable, permanent , incorruptible and inexhaustible. All else is transient, fleeting and changing. Since He is the only fixed factor in an every changing impermanent world, the seers advise us to make Him the center of our lives and activities

 

3. Brahman is eternal and timeless. Since He is the Absolute, Time does not exist in Him. The Past present and future flow in Him simultaneously. The Master of Time and Knower of all events, past., present and future, He creates Time as a part of His play and subjects us all to the motions of Time.

 

4. Brahman is the Creator of all. The world is his projection. He descends into the material universe and subjects Himself to the laws of nature.

 

5. Brahman is the sacred OM.

 

6. Brahman is beyond the senses, but is the mover and enjoyer of senses.

 

7. Brahman is the first principle. He is the Ancient. No one truly knows Him for He is without a beginning and without an end.

 

8. Brahman is pure love. He is described as Lord of Love.

 

9. Brahman is immortal. He in fact is the creator of death and the wheel of life.

 

10. Brahman is the law giver and law maker. He maintain Dharma and Rita (harmony). But He Himself is not subject to any laws.

 

11. Brahman exists in all and all exists in Him. Yet He is beyond all and different from all.

 

12. Brahman is Supreme Bliss. Pure Delight, which is the delight of pure love.

 

13. Brahman is the eternal soul, the Atman, the indweller of mortal bodies, the silent witness, the enjoyer of life and the power behind all the movements of life breath.

 

14. Brahman is above all Gods. None could ever approach Him closely except Indra.

 

15. Brahman is duality personified from the rationale point of view. But strangely in Him all conflicts and contradictions resolve themselves into perfect harmony.

 

16. Brahman is unified awareness, the eternal indivisible One where there is no enjoyer and the enjoyed, the knower and the known.

 

17. Brahman is radiance, effulgence and brilliance of thousands of suns. He is the wielder of pure energy and possessor of pure consciousness.

 

18. Brahman is desireless, without attachment, without vibration, complete, fulfilled, self-satisfied and self- absorbed.

 

19. Brahman is without sleep, dispeller of darkness, the very intelligence in man, One who is awake when we are asleep.

 

20. Brahman is knowledge. He is the knower of all that is, that was and that is yet to come.

 

21. Brahman is man Himself, the ultimate truth which every human being realizes at the end of his spiritual journey. (Isa Upanishad)