BRAHMAN IS NOT GOD

Author John B. Noss states that the early Upanishads generally refer to Brahman as a neuter something "without motion or feeling, the impersonal matrix from which the universe has issued and to which it will in time return.  This It, this One Thing, is the substantial substratum of everything."

It is important to emphasized, however, that Brahman is not God, is not Pure Spirit as God would be, according to author Edward Rice.   Again, all words used in connection with Brahman are neuter--It not He.  God would be He.  And to call Brahman "the Ground of All Being," as Western Vedantists do, is to understate the immensity of Brahman, says Rice. 

The subjective or immanent aspect of Brahman is termed Atman.  The pair may be used as synonyms or otherwise appear together as Brahman-Atman.  Swami Prabhavananda states, meanwhile, that Brahman-Atman does not act in everyday life, additional evidence of the way in which Brahman-Atman is not God.