In the nearer distance the primeval brahman settlement of Govardhan sleeps amid her mango-groves, and opposite to it the modern Christian village of Sharanpur marks the threshold of that tract of fair woodland and fairer garden which is Nasik's pride.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
We may call it principle, but it is not, like brahman, absolutely impersonal.
"The Reconciliation of Races and Religions"
Thomas Kelly Cheyne
In the golden highest sheath dwells the stainless, changeless brahman; It is the radiant white Light of lights, known to the knowers of the Self.
"Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries"
Annie Besant