{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/brk/brk13.htm","path":"hin/brk/brk13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/brk/brk13.htm","text":"Brahma Knowledge, by L. D. Barnett, [1911]\n\u00a7 10. Brahma is Absolute Being.\u2014The question whether the universal substrate, or Brahma, should properly be called being (sat) or non-being (a-sat), already agitated the Vedic poets (see \u1e5aig veda, x. cxxix. 1), and passed through the schools of the Br\u0101hma\u1e47as to those of the older Upanishads. The debate, however, was merely over words. As Brahma is beyond all the limiting conditions of phenomenal being, either term may be applied to it; it is at once metaphysically existent and empirically non-existent.\nBrahma is non-being, B.A. II. iii. 1, Ch. III. xix. 1, Taitt. II. vi.-vii.; being, Ch. VI. ii. 1, etc. Brahma is \"reality of reality,\" B.A. II. i. 20, iii. 6; \"the Eternal cloaked in (empirical) reality,\" I. vi. 3. A reconciliation from the transcendental standpoint is found in \u015avet. IV. 18, v. 1, Mu\u1e47\u1e0d. II. ii. 1, etc. \u015aankara (on Brahma-s\u016btra, I. iv. 14 f.) rightly notes the twofold meaning of the terms \"being\" and \"not-being.\"","title":"Brahma Knowledge: Part I: Brahma is Absolute Being","type":"page"}