Brahman

BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN
“Concerning these six other sons of Abraham. and their leaving for the east with his "gits".
the Stone and Kaplan comments make no mention of some interesting extrapolations from other
Jewish sources. These are summarized and expanded upon in a book called “Gifts of Abraham" by
Audi Gozlan, a Canadian orthodox Jew, who, while not a Chasid himself. is an approved list of
Chabad lecturers. I had the good fortune to hear Mr. Gozlan lecture on this subject. The subtitles of
his book are “The Untold Story of Brahman" and ‘Unity and Peace Through Meditation". The basic
premise is that these six additional sons of Abraham went off to the east to India with these ‘gifts’.
which were the secrets of meditation and mystical practices, where they became the ancient
"Rishis" of the Indian Yoga Vedanta tradition, and imparted their knowledge of these ‘gifts of
Abraham" through the Vedas. This theory points to the word ‘Brahman’, the Yoga/vedanta
designation for the underlying impersonal divine unity underlying the totality of all that is manifest
and unrrranifest, and its similarity le the word/name ‘Abra|ham". It also points out that the tirring of
when this would have occurred according to Jewish estimates coincides with estimates of the origin
of the Vedas. around 5,000 years ago.”
TORAH PORTION SUMMARIES With Insights from the Perspective of a Jewish Yogi By Steven J.
Gol 2010
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