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Saguna Brahman (lit. "The Absolute with qualities"[1]) came from the Sanskrit saguṇa (सगुण) "with qualities, gunas" and Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) "the Absolute", close to the concept of immanence, the manifested divine presence.

  1. ^ The Shambala Encyclopedia of Yoga (p. 247), by Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., ISBN 1-57062-137-3

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Saguna brahman

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Indic text. Saguna Brahman (lit. "The Absolute with qualities") came from the Sanskrit saguṇa (सगुण) "with qualities, gunas" and Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) "the...

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Brahman

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equivalence of Brahman and Atman, they also expound on Brahman as saguna Brahman—the Brahman with attributes, and nirguna Brahman—the Brahman without attributes...

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Para Brahman

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Vedanta and Vishistadvaita Vedanta traditions, the Para Brahman is defined as saguna brahman, i.e., the Absolute with attributes. In Vaishnavism, Shaivism...

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Tulsidas

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Nirguna Brahman (quality-less impersonal absolute) and Saguna Brahman (personal God with qualities) are one and the same. Both, Saguna (qualified Brahman) and...

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God in Hinduism

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Brahman as saguna Brahman—the Brahman with attributes, and nirguna Brahman—the Brahman without attributes. The nirguna Brahman is the Brahman as it really...

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Vedanta

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Brahman, or nirguṇa Brahman and is the Absolute of metaphysics. Aparā or Lower Brahman: The Brahman with qualities defined as aparā Brahman or saguṇa...

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Saguna

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in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saguna may refer to: Saguna brahman, a Brahman absolute with qualities Saguna Baug, an agritourism centre in Neral...

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Ganapatya

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denomination of Hinduism that worships Ganesha (also called Ganapati) as the Saguna Brahman. The worship of Ganesha is considered complementary with the worship...

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Shabda Brahman

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cannot be sound; spandan is the quality of Saguna brahman and the world is the thought-projection of Saguna Shiva. The first sutra of Sarada Tilaka explains...

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Smarta tradition

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soul) as Brahman. The rapprochement included the practice of pancayatana-puja (five shrine worship), wherein a Hindu could focus on any saguna deity of...

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Advaita Vedanta

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is made between nirguna Brahman, formless Brahman, and saguna Brahman, Brahman with form, that is, Ishvara, God. Nirguna Brahman is undescribable, and the...

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Hindu deities

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major deities as henotheistic manifestations of Saguna Brahman, and as a means to realizing Nirguna Brahman. In Samkhya philosophy, Devata or deities are...

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Panchayatana puja

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all murti (idols) are icons of saguna Brahman, a means to realizing the abstract Ultimate Reality called nirguna Brahman. The five or six icons are seen...

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Hindu denominations

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of Brahman, which are the saguna brahman – the Brahman with attributes, and nirguna brahman – the Brahman without attributes. The nirguna Brahman is the...

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Avatar

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Vedic literature like the Upanishads as it is symbolic imagery of the Saguna Brahman concept in the philosophy of Hinduism. The Rigveda describes Indra as...

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Bhakti movement

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(Brahman) – Nirguna and Saguna. Nirguna Brahman was the concept of the Ultimate Reality as formless, without attributes or quality. Saguna Brahman, in...

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Astral plane

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Logos/Monad; Nirguna Brahman. oversoul/monad/jivatman 3. Spiritual/Pneuma/Nirvanic/Atmic plane Holy Spirit/Word; Third Logos/Pneuma; Saguna Brahman. individual...

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Hinduism

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worship of God-with-attributes (Saguna Brahman) as a journey towards ultimately realising God-without-attributes (nirguna Brahman, Atman, Self-knowledge). The...

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Ramanuja

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is to be achieved not with metaphysical, nirguna Brahman but with the help of personal god and saguna Vishnu. Ramanuja believed that when scriptures such...

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Namdev

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music (bhajan-kirtans). His philosophy contains both nirguna brahman and saguna brahman elements, with monistic themes. Namdev's legacy is remembered...

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Shaivism

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all idols (murti) are icons of saguna Brahman, a means to realizing the abstract Ultimate Reality called nirguna Brahman. The five or six icons are seen...

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Bhakti yoga

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images (murti) are icons of saguna Brahman, a means to thinking about the abstract Ultimate Reality called nirguna Brahman. The five or six icons are seen...

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Bhagavad Gita

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synthesis by projecting the nirguna Brahman as higher than saguna or personalized Brahman, where the nirguna Brahman "exists when everything else does not"...

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Sadh Vaishnavism

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from Brahma. Madhva championed the ultimate reality as personal and Saguna Brahman ("the absolute with qualities") and it is Lord Vishnu (Narayana). Hence...

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Brahma Sutras

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Gregory Darling, Adi Shankara in his commentary on sutra 4.3.14 considers Saguna Brahman mentioned therein as Purva-paksha, but acknowledges that some scholars...

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Historical Vedic religion

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culture of the Indus Valley. During the late Vedic period (1100–500 BCE) Brahmanism developed out of the Vedic religion, as an ideology of the Kuru-Panchala...

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Shiva Advaita

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Viśiṣṭādvaita (qualified non-dualism), which affirms the supremacy of Saguna Brahman, Appayya affirms a form of pure non-dualism and recasting Śrīkaṇṭha's...

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Paramatman

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tradition, Nirguna Brahman (Brahman without attributes) is Parabrahman. In Dvaita and Vishistadvaita Vedanta traditions, Saguna Brahman (Brahman with qualities)...

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Kartikeya

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(masculine deity), and as iraivativam (concrete manifestation of the sacred, saguna Brahman). According to Fred Clothey, as Murugan, he embodies the "cultural and...

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