parabrahma

Updated: May 24, 2025

In any case it is closely related to old ideas about the magic power of Vedic verses. The five Jinas and other supernatural personages are often regarded as manifestations of a single Buddha-force and at last this force is personified as Âdi-Buddha. But another form in which the Buddha-force is impersonal and analogous to the Parabrahma of the Vedânta is much older.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2

It may appropriately be remarked here that the ordinary Hindu gods, of the post-Vedic period, like the gods of Ancient Greece and Italy, were simply a class of superhuman beings, distinctly contra-distinguished from the Supreme Spirit, the Paramatman or Parabrahma. After death, a virtuous man was supposed to be transformed into one of these so-called gods.

- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose : Vana Parva, Part 2