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Parabrahman and Parapurusha <\/b> <\/span> <\/p>\n

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God or Para Purusha is Parabrahman unmanifest & inexpressible turned towards a certain kind of manifestation or
\nexpression, of which the two eternal terms are Atman and Jagati, Self and Universe. Atman becomes in self-symbol all
\nexistences in the universe; so too, the universe when known, resolves all its symbols into Atman. God being Parabrahman
\nis Himself Absolute, neither Atman nor Maya nor unAtman; neither Being nor Not-Being (Sat, Asat); neither Becoming
\nnor non-Becoming (Sambhuti, Asambhuti); neither Quality nor non-Quality (Saguna, Nirguna); neither Consciousness nor
\nnon-consciousness, (Chaitanya, Jada); neither Soul nor Nature (Purusha, Prakriti); neither Bliss nor non-Bliss; neither man nor
\ngod nor animal; He is beyond all these things, He maintains & contains all these things; in Himself as world He is & becomes
\nall these things. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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The only difference between Parabrahman & Parapurusha
\nis that we think of the first as something beyond our universe-existence, expressed here indeed, but still inexpressible, and of
\nthe second as something approaching our universe-existence, inexpressible indeed, but still here expressed. It is as if, in reading a translation of the Ramayan or Homer’s Iliad, we were to look at the unapproachable something no translator can seize
\nand say “This is not the Ramayan”, “This is not the Iliad” and yet, looking at the comparative adequacy of the expressions
\nwhich do succeed in catching something of the original spirit and intention, were at the same time to say “This is Homer”,
\n“This is Valmekie.” There is no other difference except this of standpoint. The Upanishads speak of the Absolute Parabrahman
\nas Tat; they say Sa when they speak of the Absolute Parapurusha.   <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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