Knowledge is what moves towards unity, and when it reaches the supramental level, it grasps the oneness, essence, and self-law of existence, and views and handles the many things from that light and fullness, somewhat like the Divine does from the highest point from which He embraces the world.
Supreme Being
The concept of a Supreme Being refers to a higher power or ultimate reality across various spiritual traditions. Many traditions converge on the idea of a singular, all-encompassing entity. However, they diverge in their understanding and characterization of this being.
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The Jivas are distinct from God and matter. According to Madhva, the difference between Brahman and Jiva is real.
Achieve Brahman and overcome time. Transcend time and become one with the Eternal.
The Eternal is beyond time. Brahman is timeless, an eternal reality that transcends time.
Brahman is beyond knowledge and ignorance, virtue and vice, merit and demerit, cleanliness and uncleanliness.
The mind does not become tranquil until it is connected to the ever-peaceful Supreme Being.
We have been given this human life to understand the all-pervading, omnipresent God. This knowledge can only be given by someone who has themselves realized God. Life becomes truly happy only after meeting such a God-realized person.
Though I am unborn, my Self imperishable, and the Lord of all beings, I take command of my own material nature and come into being through my own power of illusion.
अजोऽपि सन्नव्ययात्मा भूतानामीश्वरोऽपि सन् | प्रकृतिं स्वामधिष्ठाय सम्भवाम्यात्ममायया ||४-६||
There is nothing higher than me, Arjuna. All this is strung upon me like pearls on a thread.
मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय | मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ||७-७||
This is the lord of all; this is the knower of all; this is the inner controller; this is the source of all, the origin and dissolution of beings.
एष सर्वेश्वरः एष सर्वज्ञ एषोऽन्तर्याम्येष योनिः सर्वस्य प्रभवाप्ययौ हि भूतानाम् ॥ ६॥
Because I transcend the perishable and am higher even than the imperishable, I am celebrated in the world and in the Veda as the Supreme Person.
यस्मात्क्षरमतीतोऽहमक्षरादपि चोत्तमः | अतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः ||१५-१८||
But the supreme Person is another, called the highest Self, who, entering the three worlds, sustains them — the imperishable Lord.
उत्तमः पुरुषस्त्वन्यः परमात्मेत्युधाहृतः | यो लोकत्रयमाविश्य बिभर्त्यव्यय ईश्वरः ||१५-१७||
Neither the sun illuminates it, nor the moon, nor fire; reaching which they do not return — that is my supreme abode.
न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः | यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ||१५-६||
For I am the foundation of Brahman, of the immortal and imperishable, of the eternal dharma, and of absolute bliss.
ब्रह्मणो हि प्रतिष्ठाहममृतस्याव्ययस्य च | शाश्वतस्य च धर्मस्य सुखस्यैकान्तिकस्य च ||१४-२७||
The supreme Purusha in this body is also called the witness, the consenter, the supporter, the experiencer, the great Lord, and the supreme Self.
उपद्रष्टानुमन्ता च भर्ता भोक्ता महेश्वरः | परमात्मेति चाप्युक्तो देहेऽस्मिन्पुरुषः परः ||१३-२३||
You are the supreme imperishable to be known; you are the ultimate resting-place of this universe; you are the changeless guardian of the eternal dharma; you are, I hold, the everlasting Person.
त्वमक्षरं परमं वेदितव्यं त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम् | त्वमव्ययः शाश्वतधर्मगोप्ता सनातनस्त्वं पुरुषो मतो मे ||११-१८||
Understand that all beings have their source in these two natures. I am the origin of the entire universe, and its dissolution as well.
एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय | अहं कृत्स्नस्य जगतः प्रभवः प्रलयस्तथा ||७-६||
'In the beginning, my dear, this was Being alone, one only, without a second. Some say that in the beginning this was Non-being alone, one only, without a second, and that from Non-being Being was born.'
सदेव सोम्येदमग्र आसीदेकमेवाद्वितीयम् । तद्धैक आहुरसदेवेदमग्र आसीदेकमेवाद्वितीयं तस्मादसतः सज्जायत
Containing all works, all desires, all scents, all tastes, embracing all this, speechless, unconcerned—this is my Self within the heart, this is Brahman. On departing hence I shall attain it. Whoever has this conviction has no doubt at all. So said Shandilya, so said Shandilya.
सर्वकर्मा सर्वकामः सर्वगन्धः सर्वरसः सर्वमिदमभ्यात्तोऽवाक्यनादर एष म आत्मान्तर्हृदय एतद्ब्रह्मैतमितः प्रेत्याभिसंभवितास्मीति यस्य स्यादद्धा न विचिकित्सास्तीति ह स्माह शाण्डिल्यः शाण्डिल्यः
this is my Self within the heart, smaller than a grain of rice, or barley, or a mustard seed, or a millet grain, or a millet kernel. This is my Self within the heart, greater than the earth, greater than the mid-space, greater than heaven, greater than all these worlds.
एष म आत्मान्तर्हृदयेऽणीयान्व्रीहेर्वा यवाद्वा सर्षपाद्वा श्यामाकाद्वा श्यामाकतण्डुलाद्वैष म आत्मान्तर्हृदये ज्यायान्पृथिव्या ज्यायानन्तरिक्षाज्ज्यायान्दिवो ज्यायानेभ्यो लोकेभ्यः