Also Brahme [ad. Skr. Brahmā, masc., Brahma, neut., nom. of Brahman.] a. The supreme God of post-Vedic Hindu mythology. b. In the later pantheistic systems, the Divine reality, of which the entire universe of matter and mind is only a manifestation. Hence Brahmahood, the state of Brahma; absorption into the divine essence.
1785. C. Wilkins, trans. Bhagvat-Geeta, viii. 73. Brăhm is that which is supreme and without corruption.
1827. Colebrooke, Misc. Ess. (1837), I. 339. While a man sleeps without dreaming, his soul is with Brahme.
1840. H. H. Wilson, Vishṇu Puráṇa, 284. Sages who are the sons of Brahmá, or Brahmans.
1862. F. Hall, Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst., 194. When the soul … becomes convinced, that … itself is Brahma … it escapes from further vicissitude, and realizes Brahmahood.
