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For other uses, see Saguna (disambiguation).
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.
^The Shambala Encyclopedia of Yoga (p. 247), by Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D., ISBN 1-57062-137-3
Indic text. SagunaBrahman (lit. "The Absolute with qualities") came from the Sanskrit saguṇa (सगुण) "with qualities, gunas" and Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) "the...
equivalence of Brahman and Atman, they also expound on Brahman as sagunaBrahman—the Brahman with attributes, and nirguna Brahman—the Brahman without attributes...
Vedanta and Vishistadvaita Vedanta traditions, the Para Brahman is defined as sagunabrahman, i.e., the Absolute with attributes. In Vaishnavism, Shaivism...
Nirguna Brahman (quality-less impersonal absolute) and SagunaBrahman (personal God with qualities) are one and the same. Both, Saguna (qualified Brahman) and...
Brahman as sagunaBrahman—the Brahman with attributes, and nirguna Brahman—the Brahman without attributes. The nirguna Brahman is the Brahman as it really...
Brahman, or nirguṇa Brahman and is the Absolute of metaphysics. Aparā or Lower Brahman: The Brahman with qualities defined as aparā Brahman or saguṇa...
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saguna may refer to: Sagunabrahman, a Brahman absolute with qualities Saguna Baug, an agritourism centre in Neral...
denomination of Hinduism that worships Ganesha (also called Ganapati) as the SagunaBrahman. The worship of Ganesha is considered complementary with the worship...
cannot be sound; spandan is the quality of Sagunabrahman and the world is the thought-projection of Saguna Shiva. The first sutra of Sarada Tilaka explains...
soul) as Brahman. The rapprochement included the practice of pancayatana-puja (five shrine worship), wherein a Hindu could focus on any saguna deity of...
is made between nirguna Brahman, formless Brahman, and sagunaBrahman, Brahman with form, that is, Ishvara, God. Nirguna Brahman is undescribable, and the...
major deities as henotheistic manifestations of SagunaBrahman, and as a means to realizing Nirguna Brahman. In Samkhya philosophy, Devata or deities are...
all murti (idols) are icons of sagunaBrahman, a means to realizing the abstract Ultimate Reality called nirguna Brahman. The five or six icons are seen...
of Brahman, which are the sagunabrahman – the Brahman with attributes, and nirguna brahman – the Brahman without attributes. The nirguna Brahman is the...
Vedic literature like the Upanishads as it is symbolic imagery of the SagunaBrahman concept in the philosophy of Hinduism. The Rigveda describes Indra as...
(Brahman) – Nirguna and Saguna. Nirguna Brahman was the concept of the Ultimate Reality as formless, without attributes or quality. SagunaBrahman, in...
worship of God-with-attributes (SagunaBrahman) as a journey towards ultimately realising God-without-attributes (nirguna Brahman, Atman, Self-knowledge). The...
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...
music (bhajan-kirtans). His philosophy contains both nirguna brahman and sagunabrahman elements, with monistic themes. Namdev's legacy is remembered...
all idols (murti) are icons of sagunaBrahman, a means to realizing the abstract Ultimate Reality called nirguna Brahman. The five or six icons are seen...
images (murti) are icons of sagunaBrahman, a means to thinking about the abstract Ultimate Reality called nirguna Brahman. The five or six icons are seen...
synthesis by projecting the nirguna Brahman as higher than saguna or personalized Brahman, where the nirguna Brahman "exists when everything else does not"...
from Brahma. Madhva championed the ultimate reality as personal and SagunaBrahman ("the absolute with qualities") and it is Lord Vishnu (Narayana). Hence...
Gregory Darling, Adi Shankara in his commentary on sutra 4.3.14 considers SagunaBrahman mentioned therein as Purva-paksha, but acknowledges that some scholars...
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...
Viśiṣṭādvaita (qualified non-dualism), which affirms the supremacy of SagunaBrahman, Appayya affirms a form of pure non-dualism and recasting Śrīkaṇṭha's...
tradition, Nirguna Brahman (Brahman without attributes) is Parabrahman. In Dvaita and Vishistadvaita Vedanta traditions, SagunaBrahman (Brahman with qualities)...
(masculine deity), and as iraivativam (concrete manifestation of the sacred, sagunaBrahman). According to Fred Clothey, as Murugan, he embodies the "cultural and...