
Aakash
A deity associated with the sky or space.

A deity associated with the sky or space.

Another name of Vishnu, meaning 'the infallible' or 'the imperishable'.

One of Vishnu's avatars, representing the primal form.

Mother of the Devas, representing boundlessness and fertility.

The offspring of Aditi, solar deities representing different aspects of the sun.

Consolidated by Ādi Shankaracharya (8th century CE), Advaita proposes that Brahman is the only reality, and the phenomenal world is an illusion (māyā). It teaches that individual consciousness (ātman) and universal consciousness (Brahman) are identical, famously expressed as 'Tat Tvam Asi' (That Thou Art).