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वह अपना पिता स्वयं है || आचार्य प्रशांत (2014)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Brahman
Source
Duality
Formless
Nameless
Brahma
Father
Description

Acharya Prashant begins by clarifying the distinction between Brahman and Brahma. He explains that Brahman, or Brahm, refers to the formless, nameless, total source. In contrast, Brahma is a mythological figure, part of the trinity. He then critically examines his own statement that Brahman is the 'source'. He points out that this statement is not entirely pure or accurate. The speaker elaborates on the flaw in calling Brahman the 'source'. He questions, 'Source of what?' If Brahman is the only reality and nothing else exists besides it, then it cannot be the source of anything else. To be a source implies the existence of something that has originated from it, which would create a duality. If there is nothing other than Brahman, then whose source is it? The speaker humorously asks if it is its own source, its 'own daddy'. He explains that either one must accept that something else exists apart from Brahman for it to be a source, or if nothing else exists, the term 'source' becomes problematic. The chain of causality must end somewhere. One has to stop at some point and declare that this entity did not come from anywhere, that it has no 'father'. Whether one stops at the soul or something else is a matter of choice, but at some point, one must acknowledge a primary, uncaused entity. This is the first, the ultimate reality, which cannot have a source itself.