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Brahman has avyama ('unlimited extension in terms of space'); it is sarvagata ('omnipresent'), ananta ('infinite'); it is called Bhuman ('plenitude') and is nirvayava or ('without parts') and arupvad ('formless'), and eternal because it is aksara ('imperishable').[5] Brahman is Bhuman, the plenitude which transcends the sum of its parts and yet fully inheres in them.[6] The quality of being the Bhuman (plenitude) etc.; ascribed by the Śrutis agrees well with the highest Self, which is the cause of everything.[7] Brahman resides in its entirety within the smallest particle imaginable and yet remains the ayatana, the receptacle, or bhuman, the totality which transcends the sum of these parts.[8]
Bhuman is not the human soul, the companion of Prana; Bhuman is Ānanda (Bliss), immense joy. Samprasada also refers to the released soul.[9] The consideration of happiness induces and impels man to perform actions, had he experienced unhappiness in his pursuit he would not have gone in for the actions at all; but real happiness is that which one enjoys in the vision of the Infinite.[10] The Doctrine of Ananda (Bliss) is central to the philosophy of Vedanta. Ananda conveys a sense of infinite, eternal, absolute happiness and not selfish pleasure which is transitory gratification but a state of absolute expansion called Bhuman.[11] Bhuman is illimitation. Ananda, the supreme pleasure, is in illimitation and not in the limited (alpa).[12]
- यो वै भूमा तत्सुखं, नाल्पे सुखमस्ति Bhuman is that happiness.[13]
Brahman is the Absolute to be distinguished from
- भूमा सम्प्रसादादध्युपदेशात् | (Brahma SutraI.iii.8)
- "Bhuman is the supreme Self, since he is taught as superior to samprasada (Prana)".
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