What does “Prajnanam Brahma” Mean?

Rig Veda proclaims ‘prajnanam brahma that is, prajnana is Brahma, Prajnana means awareness, consciousness, which is pervading the subtlest texture of the cosmos and is present and active everywhere, at all the places and all the time.

It energizes the physical, emotional and spiritual realms, the lower, middle and higher regions, and human, sub-human and super-human beings.

The three periods of time-nether, spatial and heavenly and the three modes of being equanimity, activity and passivity (sattwa, rajas and tamas) are all pervaded and permeated by prajnana or chaitanya or consciousness.

To know things by sense organs is called ajna or ignorance. To acquire the knowledge by name and form is called sajna. To acquire special knowledge through analysis or contemplation is called vijnan.

But the absolute truth, the reality, the totality, of which the various forms of knowledge are relativistic, is called prajna or chaitanya, the consciousness.