{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/brk/brk14.htm","path":"hin/brk/brk14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/brk/brk14.htm","text":"Brahma Knowledge, by L. D. Barnett, [1911]\n\u00a7 11. Brahma is Thought.\u2014The Vedic brahma, \"prayer\" or \"spell,\" is naturally a function\nof intellect; and when it had risen to the rank of a cosmic Force, it retained this character. It is the universal subject of thought; but as it is itself the universe, and there is nothing beside, it is also its own object, like the Aristotelian \u03bd\u03cc\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 \u03bd\u03bf\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2; and as it is above the conditions of space, time, and causality, we can say of it only that it exists, and is Thought.\nFrequently, from the natural tendency to conceive a higher sphere of existence as a realm of light and thought as itself light, Brahma and the individual Self identified with it are described as supreme self-luminous light: B.A. IV. iv. 16, Ch. VIII. iii. 4, XII. 3, Ka\u1e6dh. v. 15, \u015avet. VI. 14.","title":"Brahma Knowledge: Part I: Brahma is Thought","type":"page"}