Category:Absolute Truth Is Known
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that while the Absolute Truth is one and non-dual, it is known and realized in three different phases: Brahman, Paramātmā, and Bhagavān. These phases represent a progressive understanding of the same unified identity. The impersonal Brahman is the objective of mental speculators, the localized Paramātmā is the goal of meditative yogīs, and Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the ultimate realization of the self-realized soul. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that one who understands these three features is a tattvavit, for they know not only the Lord but also their own factual relationship with Him. To attain this complete knowledge, one must move beyond the limitations of their own teeny brain and submissively hear from authorized scriptures like the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, concentrating their mind specifically on Kṛṣṇa.
- Progressive Realization: The Absolute Truth is not dual, yet it is known through three distinct aspects depending on the seeker's vision.
- The Tattvavit: One who knows all three features—Brahman, Paramātmā, and Bhagavān—is considered a person in complete knowledge.
- The Final Word: While Brahman and Paramātmā are features of the Truth, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate and most complete realization.
- The Path of Knowledge: Real knowledge of the Absolute Truth requires approaching a tattva-darśī and following the authorized Vedic process.
- Overcoming Ignorance: Without knowing the Absolute Truth, one remains in ignorance; but by knowing the Truth, all other things become known.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Absolute Truth is Known in Three Phases.
Pages in category "Absolute Truth Is Known"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- Absolute Truth is known in three different phases. - What is that? "Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan." If we really seeking knowledge, then we have to find out a person who is tattva-darsi, who has understood the Absolute Truth
- According to Srimad-Bhagavatam, one who knows the Absolute Truth in three different features - namely Brahman, Paramatma, and the SPG - is called tattvavit, for he knows also his own factual position in relationship with the Supreme. BG 1972 purports
- As confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.2.11): Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan
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- If you know the Absolute Truth, then all other things become known. But you do not know what is Absolute Truth. Therefore you are in ignorance
- It is necessary that leaders like Gandhi establish themselves on the transcendental footing of the personal feature of the Absolute Truth, known as Visnu or the all-pervading Godhead
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- Sankhya means physical study of the cosmic situation through speculative knowledge. This is generally known as jnana-sastra. The Sankhyites are attached to the impersonal Brahman, but the Absolute Truth is known in three ways
- Since it has been stated hereinbefore that in the Bhagavatam the Absolute Truth is to be known, the questions of the sages of Naimisaranya are proper and just, because they pertain to Krsna, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth
- So Bhagavad-gita is the right book to understand about that brahma, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or the Absolute Truth, whatever you call. The Absolute Truth is known in three phases: Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan
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- The Absolute Truth is known by the self-realized souls as a unified identity known by different names - impersonal Brahman, localized Paramatma, and Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- The Absolute Truth is known sometimes as Brahman, sometimes as Paramatma and sometimes as Bhagavan. One who has complete knowledge and spiritual understanding realizes the spiritual form of Bhagavan, the Personality of Godhead
- The Absolute Truth is known sometimes as Brahman, sometimes as Paramatma and sometimes as Bhagavan. One who tries to approach the Absolute through yoga practice will be able to realize Paramatma
- The Absolute Truth is known sometimes as Brahman, sometimes as Paramatma and sometimes as Bhagavan. Persons who are in knowledge of the truth know that one who tries to approach the Absolute simply by mental speculation will ultimately realize Brahman
- The Srimad-Bhagavatam explains that the Supreme Absolute Truth is known as Brahman, Paramatma, and Bhagavan. In addition, the living entity, individual soul, is also called Brahman. BG 1972 purports
- Those who are in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, they say: "Absolute Truth, that thing which is nondual." Nondual. "And that Absolute Truth is known in three phases." What is that? Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan