Image via WikipediaThere two words that confuse most of the people in the west. Many who assume to be very modern people in east also find these words as confusing the Hinduism and the Brahman. The associated words include Brahman and Nature. These has nothing to do with religion as such. The reason for it is that these are discussed in the Six Schools of Indian Philosophy not in the religions as they are.
These Six Schools differ a lot but are part of the Grand Indian Civilization. All students who follow it are known by various names. In general, Brahman as Philosopher or the Thinker, the Knowing person about the Spirit, Nature and Universe in these schools received great respect knowing Philosophy of the Six School. And, thus it seems a Brahmnical religion. Its not the case, many schools developed with various names like Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism and many others that follow the Schools without claiming to be Hindus by religion.
Even the word OM is sound energy that is understanding the Quantum Physics and the Creation of the Universe. The Philosopher or Thinker of Indian Schools as the Brahman knows and understands it.
All religions follow philosophy, the spiritual or metaphysical part that we know as Philosophy of Religion.
This religious part is known as Samparda, say as if the name of the Religious University in which one is known more by religion than school of philosophy.
The Brahman is word for what Universe Produces as the Brahma, the Spirit in the Universe. The general term for Brahman is the one, who understands natural laws and principles of nature, spirit and universe. Now, nature is dealing with it similarly as Eve is from the Adam. The Adam means the Seed that sprouts as if after separating from the Spirit, the Brahma or Brahman in general. Both are used as synonymous many times. The Seed of the Universe creates the Nature.
So, the nature is usually addressed as Womb, the Eve. This respect for Eve makes people call Mother Nature. There is no other great significance as the main thing is the Seed. Female carries sperm in her blood which is from the father. Its not thus just matter of Ribs of Adam. She cannot give sperm other than present in her blood and that is of her father.
However, the Male while also having father's sperm in the blood gives the sperms of his own. This very simple biological term is referred as Eve from Adam due to Sperm that we also know as the Purusha in India.
Few words about how woman can produce child without man:
"In the second method, the need of a male is not absolutely essential. A human being can be created by only a female. That is why it is sometimes called asexual method. Every cell has a nucleus that contains the genes. The composition of genes decides the look of a person, the colour of hair, height and so on.
In this method, the egg cell is taken out of the womb and placed in a dish; its nucleus is removed and discarded. The nucleus of a normal cell taken from anywhere else in the body, say leg or arm, either of the same person or anyone else is placed in the egg cell. This egg cell is then placed in the womb of either the same female or any other female and develops into a baby. It will look exactly like the person whose nucleus is implanted into the empty egg cell. It will have nothing in common with the so-called mother.
It is possible to use egg cell from any female animal, say a cow, to clone a man by placing the nucleus of a human’s cell inside the emptied egg and then implant it into the womb of any woman. The resultant clone will look like the donor of the nucleus." (With thanks from the source: http://www.oocities.org/jkrworld/Cl.htm)
Thus, this Purusha has name Brahman or synonymous Brahma, the main Seed Giver and thus Lord Krishna calls himself as Seed.
The Seed has tree in it, so the Indian Philosophy projects human as an inverted tree having roots in the head or sky, and branches, the body as trunk with arms and legs.
We may not argue on things that have biological evidences.
Thanks for your time to read it as East and West: Brahman, Spirit, Nature, OM, and Universe as Adam and Eve: Words Need Attention
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