Parabrahman / Brahman

[Guest guest]

What is the difference?

[gHari]

Srimad-Bhagavatam 9.9.49:

 

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yat tad

brahma paraM

sUkSmam

azUnyaM zUnya-kalpitam

bhagavAn vAsudeveti

yaM gRNanti hi sAtvatAH

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yat--that which; tat--such;

brahma param--Parabrahman

, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, KRSNa; sUkSmam--spiritual, beyond all material conceptions; azUnyam--not impersonal or void; zUnya-kalpitam--imagined to be void by less intelligent men; bhagavAn--the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vAsudeva--KRSNa; iti--thus; yam--whom; gRNanti--sing about; hi--indeed; sAtvatAH--pure devotees.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, VAsudeva, KRSNa, is extremely difficult to understand for unintelligent men who accept Him as impersonal or void, which He is not. The Lord is therefore understood and sung about by pure devotees.

PURPORT

 

As stated in SrImad-BhAgavatam (1.2.11):

 

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vadanti tat tattva-vidas

 

tattvaM yaj jJAnam advayam

 

brahmeti paramAtmeti

 

bhagavAn iti zabdyate

 

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The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases--as Brahman, ParamAtmA and BhagavAn. BhagavAn is the origin of everything. Brahman is a partial representation of BhagavAn, and VAsudeva, the Supersoul living everywhere and in everyone's heart, is also an advanced realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But when one comes to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead (vAsudevaH sarvam iti), when one realizes that VAsudeva is both ParamAtmA and the impersonal Brahman, he is then in perfect knowledge. KRSNa is therefore described by Arjuna as paraM brahma paraM dhAma pavitraM paramaM bhavAn [

Bg. 10.12

]. The words paraM brahma refer to the shelter of the impersonal Brahman and also of the all-pervading Supersoul. When KRSNa says tyaktvA dehaM punar janma naiti mAm eti [

Bg. 4.9

], this means that the perfect devotee, after perfect realization, returns home, back to Godhead. MahArAja KhaTvAGga accepted the shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and because of his full surrender he achieved perfection.

 

[gHari]

As an aside, when we speak of correcting books, we see not only "samam iti" in the last quote (which I fixed) but again in SB 7.13.42, SB 7.10.70, and in SB 8.3.12 we see it both as sarvam and as samam.

[gHari]

http://vedabase.net/p/param

 

http://vedabase.net/p/para

[Guest guest]

 

What is the difference?

 

The difference - none of these quotes can explain either of the two!!!

You will know only if you reach. Rest is speculation or a try at it at the best.

[Guest guest]

 

[vedabase.net/p/param"]vedabase.net/p/param

 

vedabase.net/p/para

 

These are definitions from Veda base.

[gHari]

The Bhagavatam is speculation? That is an unfortunate obstacle.

 

What is the difference between the sun and sunlight? It is like that.

 

And "if you reach" you will know why Sri Caitanya quotes the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya (14.36): http://vedabase.net/cc/adi/7/98/en

[Guest guest]

 

The Bhagavatam is speculation? That is an unfortunate obstacle.

 

What is the difference between the sun and sunlight? It is like that.

 

And "if you reach" you will know why Sri Caitanya quotes the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya (14.36): vedabase.net/cc/adi/

 

Bhagwatam is not speculation. But it is just a medium to reach after all. Nothing else. Yes "if" you do reach. Vedabase.. just a place for copying pasting more quotes. But good if it helps in reaching.