quotations about Brahma
When union with Brahma is attained the means of attaining it have no further purpose.
SHRI JNANESHVAR
Jnaneshvari
My Lord
(Hallelujah)
My my my Lord
(Hare Krishna)
My sweet Lord
(Hare Krishna)
My sweet Lord
(Krishna, Krishna)
My Lord
(Hare Hare)
Mmmm
(Gurur Brahma)
Mmmm
(Gurur Vishnu)
Mmmm
(Gurur Devo)
Mmmm
(Maheshwara)
My sweet Lord
GEORGE HARRISON
"My Sweet Lord"
The question whether the universal substrate, or Brahma, should properly be called being or non-being already agitated the Vedic poets and passed through the schools of the Brahmanas to those of the older Upinshads. The debate, however, was merely over words. As Brahma is beyond all the limiting conditions of phenomenal being, either term may be applied to it; it is at once metaphysically existent and empirically non-existent.
LIONEL DAVID BARNETT
Brahma-Knowledge
BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva -- a rather neater division of labor than is found among the deities of some other nations. The Abracadabranese, for example, are created by Sin, maintained by Theft and destroyed by Folly. The priests of Brahma, like those of Abracadabranese, are holy and learned men who are never naughty.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.
GAUTAMA SHAKYAMUNI
Forbes, 1975
In order to expand the psychic arena one will have to accept an entity beyond the psychic arena as one's goal. This persistent endeavour will bring about actual psychic development, culminating in the attainment of Brahma.
SHRII SHRII ANANDAMURTI
Adorning the Dawn: Discourses on Neohumanist Education
Upon the silver mountain, South by East,
Sits Brahma fed upon the sacred bean;
He loves those men whose nails are still increased,
Who all their lives keep ugly, foul and lean;
'Tis of his grace that not a bird or beast
Adorned with claws like mine was ever seen;
The suns and stars are Brahma's thoughts divine
Even as these trees I seem to see are mine.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"An Oriental Apologue"
Brahma! Supremest Being!
By whom the worlds are made,
Where we are blind to all-seeing,
Stable, where we are fleeing,
Of Life and Death afraid,
Instruct us, for mankind,
What is the body, Brahma? O Brahma, what the mind?
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
"Brahma's Answer"
Brahma is considered a soft god and often seen as a liability because of his predilection for granting boons. He is almost always involved in heavenly conflicts and is easily placated. Brahma has often rewarded gods and demons for austerities they undertook by bestowing on them was is sometimes called the "boon of conditional immortality." Although his boons did not grant complete immortality, they always caused a great deal of concern for the gods. Eventually either Vishnu or Shiva uses the loophole in Brahma's boon to defeat the demon and restore the world to its rightful order.
SWAMI ACHUTHANANDA
The Ascent of Vishnu and the Fall of Brahma
After dissolution of the Universe, Brahma, drifting in the primordial waters that preceded creation, came across Ganesha sitting in a lone banyan tree that remained. Ganesha touched Brahma's head and initiated him into the mantra 'Om'. Brahma prayed before Ganesha who bestowed upon him the knowledge to create the universe, in return for which he gave Ganesha his two wives, representative of prudence and prosperity.
ROYINA GREWAL
The Book of Ganesha
Brahma is the least worshipped god in Hinduism today. There are only two temples in the whole of India devoted to him, compared with the many thousands devoted to the other two.
BBC
"Brahma"
And while the sacred wine I quaff,
Two souls are mingled on the brim;
I drink the Brahma in the cup,
And he receives me into him.
FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN
"Brahma's Cup"
The term Brahma is very loosely used in the religious literature of the Hindus. In a philosophical sense it signifies that eternal and absolute Reality which is the ground and the cause of the universe.
SURESH K. SHARMA
Cultural and Religious Heritage of India
O Friend! this body is His lyre;
He tightens its strings, and draws from it the melody of Brahma.
If the strings snap and the keys slacken, then to dust must this instrument of dust return.
KABIR
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
God creates the world as Brahma, sustains it as Vishnu, and destroys it as Shiva. One day, Shiva started to sing. Vishnu was so moved by the melody that he began to melt. Brahma caught the molten Vishnu in a pot. This was poured on earth. It took the form of the river Ganga. The Ganga nourished the earth. To bathe in the Ganga's waters is to bathe in God.
GANGA MAHATMYYA
attributed, Myth=Mithya
According to Brahma, in the moment the male and female beheld one another, desire simply happened. Overwhelmed with the beauty of Sandhya, Brahma looked up to see Kama, fully formed and well armed, with his own beauty, five flower arrows, and a seductive gaze.
CATHERINE BENTON
God of Desire
For Brahma is man individually, and also, collectively, mankind: hence Brahma is said to be born and to die every day.
EDWARD MOOR
The Hindu Pantheon
Rebirth then takes place in the celestial palace of the first realm of concentration, and the first to be born there has a large body and the notion of being the creator of that world. He is known as the ancestor of that world, the great Brahma, who is principal. Those who are subsequently born are smaller in size; and since they think they were born based upon Brahma's wish, they become members of his retinue.
PEMA LUNGTOK GYATSO
An Ambrosia Ocean of Sublime Explanations
When He Himself reveals Himself, Brahma brings into manifestation that which can never be seen.
As the seed is in the pland, as the shade is in the tree, as the void is in the sky, as infinite forms are in the void--
So from beyond the Infinite, the Infinite comes; and from the Infinite the finite extends.
KABIR
One Hundred Poems of Kabir
But, as often as the heart
Breaks--wild and wavering--from control, so oft
Let him re-curb it, let him rein it back
To the soul's governance; for perfect bliss
Grows only in the bosom tranquillized,
The spirit passionless, purged from offence,
Vowed to the Infinite. He who thus vows
His soul to the Supreme Soul, quitting sin,
Passes unhindered to the endless bliss
Of unity with Brahma.
EDWIN ARNOLD
The Song Celestial