Celebrating Shravan with Shiva -12

Shiva Day Twelve

The Concept of God in Hinduism by Swami Krishnanada

1.  The Kena Upanishad says that the Supreme Reality is beyond the perception of the senses and the mind because the senses and the mind can visualize and conceive only the objects, while Reality is the Supreme Subject, the very precondition of all sensation, thinking, understanding, etc. No one can behold God because He is the beholder of all things.

‘The Principal Upanishads’ by Subhamoy Das

The Kena Upanishad derives its name from the word 'Kena', meaning 'by whom'. It has four sections, the first two in verse and the other two in prose. The metrical portion deals with the Supreme Unqualified Brahman, the absolute principle underlying the world of phenomenon, and the prose part deals with the Supreme as God, 'Isvara'. The Kena Upanishad concludes, as Sandersen Beck puts it, that austerity, restraint, and work are the foundation of the mystical doctrine; the Vedas are its limbs, and the truth is its home. The one who knows it strikes off evil and becomes established in the most excellent, infinite, heavenly world.

Many Hindus believe in Brahman as the ultimate reality – one 'Supreme Spirit' in many forms. Brahman is male, female, and even animal. Brahman is also commonly understood as the Trimurti - three gods with three key functions

Note:

God is described as Brahman or Consciousness in the Upanishad, the eternal and infinite subject; it cannot be made an object of the material and finite senses.

Brahman, in the Upanishads is the supreme existence or absolute reality. Though a variety of views are expressed in the Upanishads, they concur in the definition of Brahman as eternal, conscious, irreducible, infinite, omnipresent, and the spiritual core of the universe of finiteness and change.

Brahman is mentioned repeatedly in the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna is Brahman, but it has different understandings depending on context. ... Brahman essentially means spiritual, and Krishna is certainly spiritual.