Brahman (Brahmin) refers to the priestly category of Hindus. Though only a small minority of the Indian population, Brahmans hold the highest position in the caste system because of their extreme purity and sacerdotal profession. Some also live outside...

the transcendental divine source and at the same time the innermost essence of all reality, identical to ātman, first fully defined in this way in the . In the early Vedic period brahman designated the mysterious power of mantras, sacrificial...

(Sanskrit neuter noun) Originally this word designated the Vedic magic incantation or sacred formula; then it came to mean the power inherent in the utterance, the power which enables the gods to perform their mythic functions and which enables the...

brahman with attributes, the divine source of reality when conceived as the first manifested entity, usually as Brahma the creator or the highest God such as Śiva or in the sectarian...

This page deals with the Hindu concept of The Supreme Reality. For other uses of this word and similar words, see Brahman (disambiguation). For the Hindu priestly Varna, see Brahmin. Brahman (nominative brahma ब्रह्म) is the concept of the...