Brhman
the psychic Universe
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A power like Brhman to meditate on, and bring to Life is how a Brhma-Rishis forms to create the Cosmic Being that mirrors the physical Universe in the Mind.
On ब्रह्मन Brhman
In Sanskrit:
ब्रह Brha is Broad, as in vast & unconditioned
and our Universe is nothing if not vast & impartial
मन् Mana means Mind, and the Mind is mostly a Mystery.
Etymology of Brhman
With gratitude to a committed KYM teacher
The root बृह् is वृद्धौ which means to grow
when बृह् is added with the inflection प्रत्यय of मनिन् it leads to the form ब्रह्मन्
that is बृह् + मनिन् = ब्रह्मन्
This is explained in various ways:
The तत्त्व of ब्रह्मन्, meaning the principle, or 'That'-ness, its essential meaning:
here the expression वर्धयति is that which has grown and pervaded everything.
the all pervasive even in the context of the Vedas
the all pervasive-ness/comprehensiveness of the already revealed vedic knowledge indicates ब्रह्मन्
बृंहति - वर्धयति प्रजाः - the one that makes its creation grow
ब्रह्मन् - is hence in the sense of creator
ब्रह्मन् - the Veda - the huge growing mass of revealed knowledge.
since it is knowledge which grows without getting wrapped into "God" concept
The Panian shift from बृह to ब्रह् is a psycho-somatic effect, indicating the expansionary power of this particular sound - which gives the critical validation for knowing ब्रह्मन् Brhman in our quest for Infinity.
Detailed Source Material
The following Sanskrit text has been excerpted, with immense gratitude, from the seminal book:
Bhagavatpadeeya Prayoga Vaishishtyam
written by the Asthana Vidwan of Sringeri Sri Sharada Peetham
Mahamahopadhyaya Sri Mahabaleshwara Bhat.
The scholar's work is a text of how special words in the Brahmasutra Bhashya are formed etymologically in accordance to the Vyakarana Shastra, a never-before attempted work.
Next step: the text needs to be translated and interpreted to see how it clarifies the lens which we have crafted in Rishi Sapiens.
Those who "come from" this psychological space are hence called ब्राह्मण Brāhmana and are supposed to have an extremely broad-minded view of Life.
Those who biologically end up in the same gene-pool as an original Brāhmana may have some early advantages, like an actor's child in the film industry, but sooner or later it is something innate that needs to be expressed through cultivation of intelligence, beyond simply being a caste "Brahmin" and aptly derided for generational nepotism.
The best innate expression possible stems from Brhman, and those who realize, and express, such a state are thus Brhma-Rishis.
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