BRAHMAN

 

 

“There is nothing higher than Brahman. Everything in the universe is strung on Brahman like jewels on the thread of a necklace.”

 (Bhagavad Gita)

 

 

 

The Upanishads refer to the Brahman as the supreme existence, the transcendent power and only reality in the universe. (Encylopaedia Britannica, 2014) Hindus belief that everything came from Brahman and that everything will eventfully return to Brahman. (Dixon, J 2014) The notion of Brahman is pantheistic meaning that everything is God. The inability to return to Brahman is the central problem of human existence for a Hindu.

 

There are many thousands of gods in Hinduism all representing certain features of Brahman. Each different God presents different emanations Brahman.