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The ultimate divine reality in Hinduism.

The ultimate reality understood in Hindu traditions as the divine foundation of all existence.

Brahman is ultimate reality: the divine foundation of all existence. ‘Ultimate’ means that it is fundamental, rather than something dependent on another reality. Hindu teachings recognise that the human mind cannot fully grasp Brahman.

The ultimate reality that pervades everything; as a feature of the divine, Brahman is understood as everywhere and non-personal.

Use qualified language such as ‘some Hindus’ or ‘many Vaishnavas’. Hindu traditions do not all understand Brahman or the deities in the same way.

Do not confuse Brahman, ultimate reality, with Brahma, a deity associated with creation.

Distinguish the three features of the divine from the Trimurti: this question concerns Brahman, Antaryami and Bhagavan, not Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

Ultimate reality in Hinduism; many Hindus understand the different deities as expressions of Brahman.

The ultimate, eternal reality in Hindu belief.

The ultimate spiritual reality in Hinduism. Hindus understand the relationship between Brahman and the individual atman in different ways.

The ultimate spiritual reality in Hinduism.

The eternal ultimate reality in Hinduism.

The ultimate reality in Hinduism, understood as present throughout creation. Belief in Brahman within people helps explain why worship need not depend on a building.

The ultimate reality in Hinduism; understood by some Hindus as formless and non-personal, and by others in terms of a personal supreme God.

The ultimate reality; many Hindus understand Brahman as the supreme spiritual reality underlying all existence.

The ultimate reality in Hinduism; many Hindus understand Brahman as present throughout existence.

The ultimate reality in Hindu belief, from which the universe arises, by which it is sustained and into which it returns.

In Hinduism, the ultimate divine reality.

The ultimate reality; in the Brahma Sutras teaching studied here, the source of the world's creation.

The supreme spiritual reality in Hindu thought; Hindu traditions understand its relationship with the individual self in different ways.

The supreme spiritual reality understood in Hinduism as the eternal source and foundation of all existence.

Ultimate reality; many Hindus understand the different deities as expressions of Brahman.

The ultimate spiritual reality. Hindu traditions differ over whether the individual self is identical with or eternally distinct from Brahman.

The ultimate reality in Hindu belief, present within all living things.

The ultimate divine reality, with which some Hindu philosophies teach that the eternal self is one.

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