BRAHMAN IS NOT GOD

The early Upanishads generally refer to Brahman as a neuter something, without movement 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.  Again, all words used in connection with Brahman are neuter, It not He.  And to call Brahman the Ground of All Being, as Western Vedantists do, is to understate the immensity of Brahman.

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