brahman

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So the King arrested Visvasu, but a voice told him to release the Shabara and that he should build a temple on top of Nila Hill where the King would see the Lord as Daru-brahman, the wooden manifestation of the Absolute.

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  1. any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding
  2. the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category
  3. a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas
  4. a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family)

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  • But brahman was not simply a remote and transcendent reality; it was also an immanent presence which pervaded everything that lived and breathed. —  Buddha
  • In fact, by dint of the Upanisadic disciplines, a practitioner would find that brahman was present in the core of his own being. —  Buddha
  • This was just like brahman, Uddalaka ex­plained; you could not see It but nevertheless It was there. —  Buddha
  • There was no talk in the eastern Ganges of brahman, which is never mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures, but a folk version of this supreme princi­ple had become popular in the cult of the new god Brahma, who, it was said, dwelt in the highest heaven of all. —  Buddha
  • The forest-monks may not have been conversant with the transcendent brahman, but they longed to know atman, the ab­solute Self within, and were devising various ways of access­ing this eternal, immanent principle. —  Buddha
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