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Ishvara (Sanskrit: ईश्वर, romanized: Īśvara) is a concept in Hinduism, with a wide range of meanings that depend on the era and the school of Hinduism. [1] [2] In ancient texts of Hindu philosophy, depending on the context, Ishvara can mean supreme Self, ruler, lord, king, queen or husband. [1]
Ishvaratva in Sanskrit language is an abstract noun meaning 'godhood', [1] it also means divinity. [2]Purushottama (the Lord) conceals and also manifests the qualities at His will, He conceals his qualities like Ananda ('bliss') and Ishvaratva ('Lordship') in the Jivas ('Individual Souls') and also conceals His quality of Consciousness in this material world.
'The Absolute with qualities'; [1] ... the manifested divine presence. ... called Ishvara by yoga philosophy is a bold attempt to bring reconciliation between the ...
Pure Consciousness, Divine and Eternal, is the substratum that sustains and illumines the entire panorama of the ever-changing plurality.” [5] and Prabhupada explains that the Lord is everywhere present by His personal representation, the diffusion of His different energies because of which creation takes place and therefore all things rests ...
a. Ishvara is Para-Brahman with infinite superlative qualities, whose substantive nature imparts the existence to the modes b. Jivas are chit-Brahman or sentient beings (which possess consciousness). They are the modes of Brahman which show consciousness. c. Jagat is achit-Brahman or matter/Universe (which are non-conscious). They are the mode ...
Parameshashakti in Hinduism is the power of Parameshwara or Ishvara, the conditioned Brahman.It is Maya, the anadyavidya (the beginningless avidya) that has no reality in the absolute sense but is superior to its effects and inferred by them, hence, also called, avyakta.
Ishvara is a transcendent and immanent entity best described in the last chapter of the Shukla Yajur Veda Samhita, known as the Ishavasya Upanishad. It states "ishavasyam idam sarvam" which means whatever there is in this world is covered and filled with Ishvara. Ishvara not only creates the world, but then also enters into everything there is.
Ishvara or God is called Bhagavan and the person dedicated to Bhagavan is called a Bhagavata. The Bhagavata Purana (I.iii.28) identifies Krishna as Narayana, Vāsudeva, Vishnu and Hari—Bhagavan present in human form. [27] Bhagavan is the complete revelation of the Divine; Brahman, the impersonal Absolute, is unqualified and therefore, never ...