Traditional Tajjalān is one of the few enigmatic methods in Hinduism employed by the Upanishadic seers to describe Reality or Brahman.
In Chandogya Upanishad this word first appears,[3] adopts the cryptic way for saying how God could be regarded as 'the origin', 'the end', and 'the life of all things'.
[6] Tajjalān is a riddle that describes positively the three basic attributes of Brahman concerning explaining the process of creation etc.
of this (universe)", in which regard Adi Shankara states that the phrase, janamādi is a bahuvrihi compound where the subject presented is apprehended along with its attributes.
Tajjalān is the mysterious name of the universe as identified with Brahman which word summarises the three attributes of Brahman - as creator, preserver and destroyer of the universe, and presents the universe as non-different from Brahman in all three periods, past, present and future [9][10] This is the cosmological proof for the existence of God, which also means that the individual soul is non-limited in its essential nature even though owing to abundance of ignorance it acquires various names and forms to become limited.