A LEXICON OF BEING AND METAPHYSICS

BEING AND METAPHYSICS:
A LEXICON

purpose

To present a basic and essential system of words for understanding world in essential and universal aspects. The purpose is similar to that of words but here the emphasis is on what is essential, to be brief. It is not assumed that such a system is capable – or incapable – of completeness

The following languages are considered: English, French, German, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit

LEXICON

Atman: the essential and eternal core of the self

Brahman or Brahma: the ultimate real; of uncertain etymology in Sanskrit however the onomatopoeia of the word suggests breath as in the breath –essence– of being. And for those who love spelling out “the variety of views expressed in the Upanishads concur in the idea of Brahman as eternal, conscious, irreducible, infinite, omnipresent, spiritual source of the universe of finiteness and change”