The ultimate, impersonal reality or ground of being in Hindu philosophy — particularly in Advaita Vedanta, where Brahman is pure undifferentiated consciousness beyond all qualities.
Brahman as nirguna (without attributes) represents the philosophical culmination of Upanishadic thinking: the identification of the cosmic ground of being with pure self-luminous awareness, expressed in the mahavakyas ('Tat tvam asi' — That thou art).
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