Lord Brahma
Before we discuss about Lord Brahma, In Series 1, you might have read the term Brahman. First lets understand what Brahman is and then we can talk about Lord Brahma.
There are several views from different vedas, puranas, dvaita on what Brahman is about. Overall the summary from various source is "Brahman is the eternal, unchanging, infinite and transcendent reality which is the Divine of all matter, energy, time, space, and everything beyond in this Universe. ".
The trimurthy's namely Brahma, Vishnu and Siva were formed from Brahman.
Lord Brahma is god of creation. According to Brahma purana, he is the father of Manu from wher e all the human beings are decended. Goddess Saraswati sits besime him, the goodess of learning. Brahma is often identified with Prajapati.
At the beginning of creation Lord Brahma created Prajapatis who are fathers of human rase. He also created seven great sages called Saptarishi to help him to create the universe. Both these Prajapatis and Saptarishes were created from his mind rathan than body and then they are called as Manasputras.
Lord Brahma is typically depicted with four heads and four arms/ with each head facing each direction. He contually recites one of the four vedas. Unlike other gods, Brahma do not hold any weapons.
According to puranas Lord Brahma was self born. One source states that Lord Brahma was born from Lotus flower. Other source indicate that he was born from water. A seed later became a golden egg from which Lord Brahma born. The egg was split into two from which both heaven and hell were formed and Lord Brahma created the 14 lokas and many living beings came there in 8400000 kinds of material bodies according to their past desires.
Lord Brahma's vehicle is divine swan. Swan has a ability to differentiate water and milk in the mix of two. This also indicates one should identify the difference between good and bad things
that exist in the world.
Brahma Samhita contains the verses of prayer spoken by Lord Brahma glorfying the supreme Lord Krishna at the beginning of creation.
Brahma, created all knowledge, sciences, arts, music, dance and drama. He also officiated over the wedding of Shiva and Parvati.
Puranas & vedas indicate Lord Brahmā's day, consisting of his 12 hours, lasts 4 billion 320 million years, and his night is of the same duration.
Brahma lives in ‘Brahmaloka’, a celestial universe that contains many splendors. Hindu cosmology reveals that the universe exists for a period known as ‘Brahmakalpa’ or four billion earth years. At the end of this period, creation is dissolved by a process called ‘pralaya’. After this, Brahma is reborn again and creates the cosmos anew.
Though Lord Brahma created the universe he was not being workshiped by most of the people.
In the next post we will see why he is not being workshipped like other two Gods ( Vishnu & Siva).
[ஸ்ரீ கிருஷ்ணார்ப்பணம் ]
Before we discuss about Lord Brahma, In Series 1, you might have read the term Brahman. First lets understand what Brahman is and then we can talk about Lord Brahma.
There are several views from different vedas, puranas, dvaita on what Brahman is about. Overall the summary from various source is "Brahman is the eternal, unchanging, infinite and transcendent reality which is the Divine of all matter, energy, time, space, and everything beyond in this Universe. ".
The trimurthy's namely Brahma, Vishnu and Siva were formed from Brahman.
Lord Brahma is god of creation. According to Brahma purana, he is the father of Manu from wher e all the human beings are decended. Goddess Saraswati sits besime him, the goodess of learning. Brahma is often identified with Prajapati.
At the beginning of creation Lord Brahma created Prajapatis who are fathers of human rase. He also created seven great sages called Saptarishi to help him to create the universe. Both these Prajapatis and Saptarishes were created from his mind rathan than body and then they are called as Manasputras.
Lord Brahma is typically depicted with four heads and four arms/ with each head facing each direction. He contually recites one of the four vedas. Unlike other gods, Brahma do not hold any weapons.
According to puranas Lord Brahma was self born. One source states that Lord Brahma was born from Lotus flower. Other source indicate that he was born from water. A seed later became a golden egg from which Lord Brahma born. The egg was split into two from which both heaven and hell were formed and Lord Brahma created the 14 lokas and many living beings came there in 8400000 kinds of material bodies according to their past desires.
Lord Brahma's vehicle is divine swan. Swan has a ability to differentiate water and milk in the mix of two. This also indicates one should identify the difference between good and bad things
that exist in the world.
Brahma Samhita contains the verses of prayer spoken by Lord Brahma glorfying the supreme Lord Krishna at the beginning of creation.
Brahma, created all knowledge, sciences, arts, music, dance and drama. He also officiated over the wedding of Shiva and Parvati.
Puranas & vedas indicate Lord Brahmā's day, consisting of his 12 hours, lasts 4 billion 320 million years, and his night is of the same duration.
Brahma lives in ‘Brahmaloka’, a celestial universe that contains many splendors. Hindu cosmology reveals that the universe exists for a period known as ‘Brahmakalpa’ or four billion earth years. At the end of this period, creation is dissolved by a process called ‘pralaya’. After this, Brahma is reborn again and creates the cosmos anew.
Though Lord Brahma created the universe he was not being workshiped by most of the people.
In the next post we will see why he is not being workshipped like other two Gods ( Vishnu & Siva).
[ஸ்ரீ கிருஷ்ணார்ப்பணம் ]
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