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BrahmanIn Hinduism, the supreme being, an impersonal and infinite creator of the universe. Brahman exists in everything, and is the spirit, or atman, of every living thing. Achieving union with Brahman and ceasing to be reborn is the goal of every Hindu. All the images of gods, such as Vishnu or Durga, are aspects of Brahman, the one indivisible god. Brahman acts in the world through three major forms: Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu, known collectively as the Trimurti. The Om, or Aum, is the symbol of both Hinduism and of Brahman. |
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Brahmans, who sit atop the caste arrangement, assign tasks to the lower groups, with Dalits at the bottom. Suffice it to say that he is a shaiva Brahman whose deity is Shiva, who operates within an intellectual environment of rigorous debate between rival schools, within a political environment of royal patronage, and within a cultic environment of worshipping Shiva in ways derived from an alternative revelation to the orthodox Veda, namely the Tantras. It must be remembered that only a generation ago, cosmologies spoke of expanding and contracting phases of the universe which some compared to the day and night of the life of Brahman in Hindu cosmology. |
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