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Brahma +

The student must distinguish between Brahma the neuter, and Brahmâ, the male creator of the Indian Pantheon. The former, Brahma or Brahman, is the impersonal, supreme and uncognizable Principle of the Universe from the essence of which all emanates, and into which all returns, which is incorporeal, immaterial, unborn, eternal, beginningless and endless. It is all‐ pervading, animating the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom. Brahmâ on the other hand, the male and the alleged Creator, exists periodically in his manifestation only, and then again goes into pralaya, i.e., disappears and is annihilated [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahma Dharma Grantha +

Scriptural book of the Brahmo Samaj, originally compiled from other sacred writings by Debendra Nath Tagore, its chief minister or guru. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#425|6:425]][[SMW::on]]). +

Brahma Prajapati +

“Brahmâ the Progenitor”, literally the “Lord of Creatures”. In this aspect Brahmâ is the synthesis of the Prajâpati or creative Forces [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahma Vach +

Male and female Brahmâ. Vâch is also some‐times called the female logos; for Vâch means Speech, literally. (See ''Manu ''Book I., and ''Vishnu Purâna.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahma Vidya +

The knowledge, the esoteric science, about the two Brahmas and their true nature [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahma Viraj +

The same: Brahmâ separating his body into two halves, male and female, creates in them Vâch and Virâj. In plainer terms and ''esotericlly ''Brahmâ the Universe, differentiating, produced thereby material nature, Virâj, and spiritual intelligent Nature, Vâch — which is the ''Logos ''of Deity or the manifested expression of the eternal divine Ideation [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahma-sutras +

Work of Badarayana, also called ''Uttaramimamsa'', ''Sarirakasutra'' or ''Vedantasutras''. Zirkoff lists editions with the commentaries of Samkaracharya and Anandagiri, George Thibaut’s translations with the commentaries of Samkaracharya and Ramanuja, and Paul Deussen’s German translation. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#363|5:363]][[SMW::on]]). +

Brahmachari +

A Brahman ascetic; one vowed to celibacy, a monk, virtually, or a religious student [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmachari, Rajani Kant +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Brahmajala Sutra +

The appendix cites the Chinese text with a French translation in J. J. M. de Groot's ''Le code du Mahâyâna en Chine'' (Amsterdam, 1893). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#636|4:636]][[SMW::on]]). +

Brahmajnani +

One possessed of complete Knowledge; an ''Illuminatus ''in esoteric parlance [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahman +

The highest of the four castes in India, one supposed or rather fancying himself, as high among men, as Brahman, the ABSOLUTE of the Vedantins, is high among, or above the gods [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmana period +

One of the four periods into which Vedic literature has been divided by Orientalists [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmanas +

Hindu Sacred Books. Works composed by, and for Brahmans. Commentaries on those portions of the Vedas which were intended for the ritualistic use and guidance of the “twice‐born (Dwija) or Brahmans [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmanaspati +

The planet Jupiter; a deity in the ''Rig'' ''‐Veda'', known in the exoteric works as Brihaspati, whose wife Târâ was carried away by Soma (the Moon). This led to a war between the gods and the Asuras [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmapuri +

Lit., “the City of Brahmâ [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmaputras +

The Sons of Brahmâ [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmarandhra +

A spot on the crown of the head connected by ''Sushumna, ''a cord in the spinal column, with the heart. A mystic term having its significance only in mysticism [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahmarshis +

The Brahminical Rishis [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Brahma’s Day +

A period of 2,160,000,000 years during which Brahmâ having emerged out of his golden egg ''(Hiranyagarbha''), creates and fashions the material world (being simply the fertilizing and creative force in Nature). After this period, the worlds being destroyed in turn, by fire and water, he vanishes with objective nature, and then comes Brahmâʹs Night [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +