Brahman
<p >In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism" >Hinduism</a>, <b>Brahman</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >ˈ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >b</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >r</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >ɑː</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >m</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" >ən</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" >/</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language" title="Sanskrit language" class="mw-redirect" >Sanskrit</a>: ब्रह्मन् <i>bráhman</i>) is "the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPuligandla1997222_1-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPuligandla1997222-1" >[1]</a></sup> which "cannot be exactly defined".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESinari2000384_2-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-FOOTNOTESinari2000384-2" >[2]</a></sup> It has been described in Sanskrit as <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satcitananda" title="Satcitananda" >Sat-cit-ānanda</a></i> (being-consciousness-bliss)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaju1992228_3-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaju1992228-3" >[3]</a></sup> and as the highest reality.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPotter20086-7_4-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPotter20086-7-4" >[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-5" >[note 1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-8" >[note 2]</a></sup>
Brahman is conceived as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80tman(Hinduism)" title="Ātman (Hinduism)" >Atman</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-9" >[note 3]</a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_god" title="Personal god" >personal</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-10" >[note 4]</a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute(philosophy)" title="Absolute (philosophy)" >impersonal</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-11" >[note 5]</a></sup> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para_Brahman" title="Para Brahman" >Para Brahman</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman#cite_note-12" >[note 6]</a></sup> or in various combinations of these qualities depending on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Philosophy" title="Hindu Philosophy" class="mw-redirect" >philosophical school</a>.
According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita" title="Advaita" class="mw-redirect" >Advaita</a>, a liberated human being (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jivanmukta" title="Jivanmukta" >jivanmukta</a></i>) has realised Brahman as his or her own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%80tman_(Hinduism)" title="Ātman (Hinduism)" >true self</a>.
The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isha_Upanishad" title="Isha Upanishad" >Isha Upanishad</a> says:</p>
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<p >Auṃ – That supreme <i>Brahman</i> is infinite, and this conditioned <i>Brahman</i> is infinite. The infinite proceeds from infinite. If you subtract the infinite from the infinite, the infinite remains alone.</p>
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