braham atam and self
Brahman, Atman, and Self It is hard to understand the complex literature in The Upanishads because it was composed between 800 and 500 BCE and considered as the most complicated work in Hinduism. ... However, there is Higher Self called Brahman in Hinduism. ... In contrast, the Higher Self is Brahma, the creator. ... By understanding your true Self, by coming to know ones own undying soul, one then arrives at the knowledge of Brahman itself. An individual cannot attain immortality until he has realized the innermost self (Brahman). Brahman is beyond all material forms and consists of knowledge and bliss "Soundless, formless, intangible, undying, tasteless, odorless, without beginning, without end, eternal, immutable, beyond nature, is the Self. ... ” And this Self, who is pure consciousness, is Brahman. ... According to The Upanishads, the Self is before creation (same as the belief of God of Christian).