quotations about Brahma
Look upon the face of Nature
In the flush of June;
BRAHMA is the great Creator,
Life is Brahma's boon.
Dost thou hear the zephyr blowing?
That is Brahma's breath,
Vital breath, live virtue showing
'Neath the ribs of death.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
"Trimurti", Songs of Religion and Life
Brahma is the great Creator,
Life a mystic drama;
Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature
Are but masks of Brahma.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
Trimurti
I lift the cup of Brahma high!
The cup and liquor both are his;
That flowing draught is perfect rest,
For Brahma's self the liquor is.
FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN
"Brahma's Cup"
So soul ... from the circumstances in which it is placed, mistakes its own character, until the truth is revealed to it by some holy teacher, and then it knows itself to be Brahme.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Long ago in lands of golden sand
Brahma turned to Saraswati
and gently kissed her inked hand
MUSE
"Enigmatic Evolution"
Sing, O you little stars! O sing and raise your rapturous carol
To mighty Brahma, he who made you many as the sands,
And laid you on the gates of evening with his quiet hands.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"Anashuya and Vijaya", Crossways
Spurred by the ego, Brahma seeks to possess the Goddess, control her. She takes many forms, as is her nature, and slips away like water from a clenched palm. To keep up with her, Brahma changes his forms. When she becomes a goose, he becomes a gander. When she becomes a cow, he becomes a bull. In effect, Brahma loses his own identity and acquires an identity that depends on the outside world. As the chase proceeds, Brahma forgets the reason he created the world in the first place. The objective of self-realization gives way to the quest for self-preservation, self-propagation and self-actualization.
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK
Myth=Mithya
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans,
And all his priesthood moans.
JOHN KEATS
Endymion
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
The body of every man is a lyre on which Brahma, the source of all music, plays.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
introduction, One Hundred Poems of Kabir
Lord Shiva admonished Brahma for demonstrating behaviour of an incestuous nature and chopped off his fifth head for 'unholy' behaviour. Since Brahma had distracted his mind from the soul and towards the cravings of the flesh, Shiva's curse was that people should not worship Brahma. As a form of repentance, it is said that Brahma has been continually reciting the four Vedas since this time, one from each of his four heads.
BBC
"Brahma"
Your Soul is also Brahma. There is unicity or oneness between your existence, the existence of this world, and Brahma. They are not separate entities. Bring the world and your existence into unicity with Brahma and you will find yourself.
SHRII SHRII ANANDAMURTI
Adorning the Dawn: Discourses on Neohumanist Education
Brahma created a woman in order to aid him with his job of creation. She was called Shatarupa. She was so beautiful that Brahma became infatuated with her, and gazed at her wherever she went. This caused her extreme embarrassment and Shatarupa tried to turn from his gaze. But in every direction she moved, Brahma sprouted a head until he had developed four. Finally, Shatarupa grew so frustrated that she jumped to try to avoid his gaze. Brahma, in his obsession, sprouted a fifth head on top of all. It is also said in some sources that Shatarupa kept changing her form. She became every creature on earth to avoid Brahma. He however, changed his form to the male version of whatever she was and thus every animal community in the world was created.
BBC
"Brahma"
You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God. In reality, we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe. We are fragments of the sport of Brahma. It is not a question of who dances, but of who or what does not dance.
RUTH ST. DENIS
Wisdom Comes Dancing
To think of Brahma throwing worlds like a juggler's balls up into Space!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"An Oriental Apologue"
The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.
CARL SAGAN
Cosmos
In the great philosophy of Brahma, such violent turns of the scale are quite unknown. It embraces vast stretches of time, cycles of human ages, whose successive lives gravitate in concentric circles, and travel ever slowly towards the center.
ROMAIN ROLLAND
Life of Ramakrishna
Apparently unlike the God of Genesis, Brahma does not, after each day of creation, see that it is good.
STANLEY CAVELL
The Senses of Walden
So it is and has been written
Within the scrolls of sanskrit lines
That Brahma in his knowledge
Laughed and cried for all of time
MUSE
"Enigmatic Evolution"
Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The Power of Myths