Crossword clues for brahman
brahman
- A member of the highest of the four Hindu castes
- Especially a large American heat and tick resistant grayish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding
- The highest of the four main Hindu castes the priestly caste
- A member of a social and cultural elite especially a descendant of an Old New England family
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brahman \Brah"man\, Brahmin \Brah"min\, n.; pl. Brahmans, Brahmins. [Skr. Br[=a]hmana (cf. Brahman worship, holiness; the God Brahma, also Brahman): cf. F. Brahmane, Brachmane, Bramine, L. Brachmanae, -manes, -mani, pl., Gr. ?, pl.]
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A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindus.
Brahman bull (Zo["o]l.), the male of a variety of the zebu, or Indian ox, considered sacred by the Hindus.
a person from an old, respected, and usually wealthy family who has considerable social or political influence; -- a term used especially in New England; as, a Boston brahmin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see brahmin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Hinduism English) A concept of Hinduism. Brahman is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools. 2 (context dated English) a Brahmin
WordNet
n. a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family); "a Boston Brahman" [syn: brahmin]
a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas; "originally all brahmans were priests" [syn: brahmin]
the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category [syn: brahmin]
any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant grayish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding [syn: Brahma, Brahmin, Bos indicus]
Wikipedia
Brahman is a term in Hinduism for the metaphysical ultimate reality, the highest unchanging Universal Principle in the universe.
Brahman may also refer to:
- Brahman languages, a hypothetical Trans–New Guinea family of languages spoken in Madang Province in Papua New Guinea
- Brahman (band), a Japanese indie rock band
- Brahman (cattle) is a breed of cattle descended from the Bos indicus
The Brahman or Brahma is a breed of Zebu cattle (Bos indicus) that was first bred in United States from cattle breeds imported from India. Brahma cattle were produced by cross-breeding the Kankrej, Ongole, and the Gir (or Gyr) breeds of cattle. The Brahman is one of the most popular breeds of cattle intended for meat processing and is widely used in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, United States, Colombia and Australia among many other places.
Brahman is an emo band formed in 1995 in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.
In Hinduism, Brahman connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe. In major schools of Hindu philosophy it is the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, genderless, infinite, eternal truth and bliss which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes. Brahman as a metaphysical concept is the single binding unity behind the diversity in all that exists in the universe.
Brahman is a Vedic Sanskrit word, and is conceptualized in Hinduism, states Paul Deussen, as the "creative principle which lies realized in the whole world". Brahman is a key concept found in Vedas, and extensively discussed in the early Upanishads. The Vedas conceptualize Brahman as the Cosmic Principle. In the Upanishads, it has been variously described as Sat-cit-ānanda (being-consciousness-bliss) and as the unchanging, permanent, highest reality.
Brahman is discussed in Hindu texts with the concept of Atman (Soul, Self), personal, impersonal or Para Brahman, or in various combinations of these qualities depending on the philosophical school. In dualistic schools of Hinduism such as the theistic Dvaita Vedanta, Brahman is different from Atman (soul) in each being, and therein it shares conceptual framework of God in major world religions. In non-dual schools of Hinduism such as the monist Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is identical to the Atman, Brahman is everywhere and inside each living being, and there is connected spiritual oneness in all existence.
Usage examples of "brahman".
In the Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta, Atma is believed to be non-different from Brahman, the ultimate reality of the universe.
And if the sudra hunter was just an Asura in disguise, how did he have the use of brahman?
You whose devotion won the admiration of mighty Brahma himself, who saw fit to grant you the mastery of brahman, the force that created, sustains, and nourishes the universeI bow before you, great one.
It is well known that the Brahmans and Buddhists believed, centuries before the Christian era, in the contrasted fate of good men after death to enjoy the successive heavens above the clouds, and of bad men to suffer the successive hells beneath the earth.
In the Puranic sense everything comes out of the Brahman and is withdrawn into it.
His conclusion, after a careful and candid discussion, is, that Nirwana had different meanings to the minds of the ancient Aryan priests, the orthodox Brahmans, the Sankhya Brahmans, and the Buddhists, but had not to any of them, excepting possibly a few atheists, the sense of strict annihilation.
Self, ceaseless like the unbroken flow of water, is generated the natural or changeless state of nirvikalpa samadhi, which readily and spontaneously yields that direct, immediate, unobstructed and universal perception of Brahman, which transcends all time and space.
But the Athenians are fearful of prosecution by public opinion, while the Buddhists are indifferent to the superstitions of the Brahmans.
And these four rivers, as we have seen, we find in the Scandinavian traditions, and in the legends of the Chinese, the Tartars, the Singhalese, the Thibetians, the Buddhists, the Hebrews, and the Brahmans.
Brahmans tell us that a really bad karma can only be eliminated by thirty million million million rebirths multiplied by all the grains of sand in the bed of the Ganges River.
Some Brahmans are noted for their mastery of those vedas that deal with, let us say, the god Mithra or with a semidivine hero like Rama.
Yet the gods that the Brahmans serve are taken very seriously by many people.
I had already made up my mind that I would talk religion only with Brahmans, holy men and kings.
Unfortunately, the Brahmans enjoy their little secrets quite as much as do our Magians, and so I could not find out how or from what it is made.
But then, I have never been able to figure out what, if anything, the Brahmans actually believe.