Nirguna Brahman is " the Godhead behind God" that the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart experienced in deep meditation. It is absolute Reality itself, pure self-existent being. Any attempt to describe it falls flat. Even the words I just used are a dim reflection of its glory. The supreme One is totally beyond our imagination. The human mind can't begin to grasp it.
What we can do is transcend our own minds, shift back into the pure awareness within ourselves, and simply experience the reality. It can be known but it can't be communicated in words- though mystics never tire of trying!
In Hinduism, this transcendent being is symbolized by the sound " Om". Om is produced by running the Sanskrit letters a, u, and m together. The Mandukya Upanishad says that "A" stands for the waking state. " U" signifies the dream state. "M" stands for deep sleep. And the slight pause, the little piece of silence that follows your speaking the sound Om and the precedes your repeating it again- that pregnant silence is Nirguna Brahman. It's the " nothing" that contains everything.
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