Jiva-Brahma Aikya
Jīva-Brahma Aikya (IAST)Translation: "the oneness of the individual soul with the Absolute"
A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy
Sanskrit: जीव ब्रह्म ऐक्य
Transliteration: Jīva-Brahma Aikya
Translation: "the oneness of the individual soul with the Absolute"
Definition: "The central teaching of Advaita Vedānta, Kashmir Śaivism, and Śaiva Siddhānta."
The Upanishads: Volume II (Swami Nikhilananda)
"The illumined person denies the world, while affirming the underlying reality of Brahman, which constitutes the reality of all diverse objects. Brahman appearing through the limiting adjuncts of the mind is the Jīva. The individual soul looked at from the standpoint of the Absolute is Brahman. It is not altogether negated by true Knowledge; on the contrary, it is affirmed as Brahman. ....Brahman is the sole Reality, which appears as both the objective universe and the individual self. With the Knowledge of Brahman, the self is not lost in It; the self only realizes that it has always been Brahman. This is the meaning of the identity of the Jīva and Brahman."
References:
- Grimes, John (1996). A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English. Albany: State University of New York Press
- Nikhilananda, Swami (1952). The Upanishads: Volume II—Śvetāśvatara, Praśna, and Māndukya with Gauḍapāda's Kārikā. New York, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. p. 17.
