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Vibhu (Sanskrit:विभु) means – 'mighty', 'powerful', 'eminent', 'supreme', 'able to', 'capable of', 'self-subdued', 'firm' or 'self-controlled'; in Nyaya philosophy, it means – 'eternal', 'existing everywhere', 'all-pervading', 'pervading all material things'. This word also refers to ''manas'' or mind. This word has its root in the term, bhū ( भू), meaning – 'become', 'arise', 'come into existence'; thus ''vibhu'' means – 'expand', 'become manifest', 'appear', 'pervade'. ==Vedic significance== From Atharvaveda it is learnt that Sudhanvan Angirasa had three sons, Ribhu, Vibhu and Vaja, collectively known as Ribhus who were intelligent sages. They carried the luminous power of knowledge to this world, which knowledge pervaded the world as nectar. Ribhu or Ribhukshan was skillful at handling knowledge; Vibhu or Vibhawa was skillful in pervading and diffusing, and Vaja handled embodied plenitude with similar skill; all three dwelled in the solar-region and are considered to be the rays of the sun. They are the three leaders of rites and the possessors of opulence, and the three deities of several Rig Vedic hymns. A mantra of the Rig Veda reads as follows:- :एकस्य चिन्मे विभ्वस्त्वोजो या नु दधृष्वान् कृणवै मनीषा | :अहं ह्युग्रो मरुतो विदानो यानि चयवमिन्द्र इदीश एषाम् || (Rig Veda I.165.10) In the Rig Veda, the word, ''vibhu'', means – 'all-pervading unified entity that permeates or extends throughout a spatial expanse', as is in the afore-cited mantra wherein the phrase - एकस्य चिन्मे विभ्वस्त्वोजः which means - " Though I be but one, let my might be extensive. " Though the words, ''vibhu'' and ''prabhu'', appear in the Rig Veda but these words have a fixed psychological significance – ''vibhu'' means - 'coming into existence to pervade the whole being as ''ānanda'', and ''prabhu'' means - 'coming into existence as a specific object or particular experience within the range of one’s consciousness'. A sage of the Rig Veda (II.xxiv.11) asserts that:- :विभु प्रभु प्रथमं मेहनावतो बृहस्पतेः सुविदत्राणि राध्या | :इमा सातानि वेन्यस्य वाजिनो येन जना उभ्यें भुञ्जते विशः || Brihaspati, the lord of the heaven of light and the guardian of ''rta'', is present in all things and beings (''vibhu'') same as the Brahman of the Vedanta. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「vibhu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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