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Brahma - The Hindu God Of Creation | Hindu Religion Explained
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- Brahma is the Hindu creator god known as the later equivalent of Prajapati. He is associated with creation, knowledge and the sacred Vedas. According to some Hindu sources such as
- the Mahabharata, Brahma is supreme in the triad of great Hindu gods which includes Vishnu and Shiva. Most likely seen wearing a white robe with a sacred cord across his shoulder,
- Brahma is commonly depicted as a red or golden-complexioned bearded man with four heads facing the cardinal directions. His hands hold no weapons but items
- related to knowledge and creation with one raised as a sign of blessing or promise. He sits on a lotus and his vahana is a divine swan having the ability to distinguish good from evil.
- This is to say that we must see that good and evil are intertwined in our universe and we should learn how to separate the two, keeping what is valuable and discarding what is not.
- The origins of the term Brahma are uncertain, partly because several related words are found in the Vedic literature, such as Brahman for the Ultimate Reality and Brahmaṇa for priest.
- A distinction between the spiritual concept of Brahman and the deity Brahma is that the former is a genderless abstract metaphysical concept in Hinduism, while the latter is one
- of the many masculine gods in Hindu tradition. The spiritual concept of Brahman is quite old and some scholars suggest that the deity may have emerged as a personification of the impersonal universal
- principle of Brahman. But Brahma, although being the creative aspect of Brahman is not Brahman. Vishnu is more likely to be seen as a physical expression of the Absolute,
- as we observe him sleeping on Vasuki in the primal ocean of milk out of time and out of space. It is in this myth that Brahma appears seated as the first conscious deity on a lotus emerging
- from Vishnu's navel. This Brahma has four faces and four arms holding the four holy books that exist before creation, and that give him the authority to create.
- With Vishnu and Shiva, Brahma belongs to the trinity of supreme deities in the Hindu pantheon, however in terms of worship he does not have the importance of the other two gods.
- During the post-Vedic period, Brahma was a prominent deity who lost his significance by the 7th century. He was overshadowed by other major deities like Vishnu, Shiva, and Mahadevi and
- demoted to the role of a secondary creator who was in his turn created by major deities. So Brahma is at the origin of all forms in the universe but not the primordial universe itself. Thus
- in most Puranic texts, Brahma's creative activity depends on the presence and power of a higher god. This is exactly the reason why some accounts say that if there is a worshiped trinity in India,
- the great goddess or Devi in her many forms would make up the third part with Vishnu and Shiva, but Brahma remains of great mythological importance. As the creator entity in the Puranas,
- he is frequently identified with the Vedic god Prajapati of the ancient Brahmanas. According to a legendary story, Brahma was created from the right side of this primordial force.
- In ancient times, the supreme god Prajapati was an entity who existed before anything else. It is this entity who started the process of creating the cosmos by bringing Brahma into existence.
- In later scriptures, Prajapati merged with Brahma becoming one of the three most powerful Hindu deities along with Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer.
- A legend describes how he created himself from the primeval waters using the power of his own desire. By contrast, the Mahabharata tells how he was born from a lotus in the navel of Vishnu.
- From this lotus and the light around it, Brahma was born and mixed with it as the light spread throughout the cosmos, so he became the essence of all things and the power contained within them.
- Brahma also became the essence of time, since his life is anticipated as a hundred heavenly years, a single day of his life is equal to four billions earthly years. When these are over,
- the cycle of creation will start all over again with the beginning of a new age, so at the end of each of his years, the universe is destroyed and rebuilt from scratch.
- As one of the oldest and most diverse religion, Hinduism has many different creation myths. But the most persistent story involves Brahma who uses his powers to create everything. After emerging at
- the beginning of time, Brahma contemplated the universe which was nothing but swirling chaos without shape. The scriptures assert that Brahma is temporarily incompetent as he puts together the
- universe, but then becomes aware of his confusion and meditates as an ascetic. As he meditated, the universe started to take shape and order started to be revealed from chaos, he combined
- matter and spirit to create a dazzling variety of living creatures, and a tempest of causal nexuses. Brahma produced a succession of further beings from the stars to the gods and so forth, imbuing
- everything with both good and evil, the material and the spiritual, the beginning and the end. In the process of creating, the demons were born from a part of Brahma's body
- which became the night but he threw it away in disappointment. After he created the gods he abandoned his body once again which turned into the day, therefore the demons gain the ascendancy
- at night and the gods representing the forces of goodness rule during the day. When creation was complete, Brahma lives on his creation and continued to give strength to the universe.
- Brahma is generally less popular than Vishnu or Shiva, probably because he is only identified with the primordial account of creation. Originally, Brahma was born with only one head but then grew
- five others. A story says that he was cursed and lost one, meanwhile another tells that one of his heads was cut off by Shiva after lusting for his own daughter Sandhya. The latter made
- people believed that incest with his daughter is partly responsible for Brahma’s limited to no worship at all. By the 7th century, this divinity lost his importance as few legends mention some
- reasons for his downfall. There are mainly two prominent versions of why Brahma lost his ground, the first version refers to Shiva Purana, where Brahma and Vishnu argued about who
- was the greatest among them. Shiva set them both to a challenge to which Brahma cheated in order to win. This angered Shiva whom as a result cursed Brahma to be never worshiped ever again.
- Historians believe that some of the major reasons for Brahma's downfall were the rise of Shaivism and Vaishnavism. Due to his elevated status, Brahma is less
- involved in picturesque myths where gods take on human form and character, but he is rather a metaphysical ideal of a great god. In later Puranas, Brahma is no longer worshiped and
- other gods are assigned to his myths, even if he always maintains his status as the creator god. In contemporary Hinduism, Brahma does not enjoy popular worship and has substantially less
- importance than Vishnu or Shiva. He is revered in the ancient texts, yet rarely worshiped as a primary deity in India, owing to the absence of any significant sect dedicated to his reverence.
- He is still honored today with an annual ceremony at the pilgrimage site of Pushkar, and he remains a popular figure in Southeast Asia especially in Thailand and Bali.
- In Hindu beliefs, the god Brahma is the source of all space-time and creation works in a continuous cycle. When he wakes, the world comes into being for a day lasting more than four billion years.
- When he sleeps, the whole illusion of the world disappears back into nothingness. This concept of a series of new creations can be found in many other religions,
- such as those of Mesoamerica. The Hindu concept of each cycle of creation being simply a day and night for Brahma is close to the ancient Egyptian model. Even the worlds that will
- end in the battle of Ragnarok, the twilight of the Norse gods can turn out to be simply a new beginning as they quietly recreate themselves on the far side of the disaster.
- Hopefully you’ve enjoyed watching this video on Brahma, let me know what are your thoughts in the comment section down below. And as always, stay curious.
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