User contributions for Deepali

12 June 2024

• 14:4114:41, 12 June 2024 diff hist −19‎ If Brahma did not create the Vedas but he is acknowledged as the first created being, wherefrom did Vedic knowledge come to Brahma? Obviously the Vedas did not come from an ordinary person born in this material world ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 12 June 2024 diff hist −39‎ Formerly when Brahma, the first created living entity, performed sacrifices, he spoke these three names (om tat sat) of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The same principle holds by disciplic succession. So this hymn has great significance. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 12 June 2024 diff hist −18‎ Brahma was the first created being. Who spoke to him? Since no one was there, who was the spiritual master to give knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma is addressed as pitamaha, grandfather. He's the original first creature in this material world, in this universe, and everyone has come from him. Therefore he is called pitamaha. Pitamaha means grandfather ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 12 June 2024 diff hist −18‎ Although Brahma is the first created being, he is not independent, for he receives help from the Supreme Personality of Godhead through his heart ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0012:00, 12 June 2024 diff hist +11‎ As far as we are concerned, we are creatures of Lord Brahma's creation. Under the circumstances, therefore, we cannot offer you adequate prayers, but as far as our ability allows, we have expressed our feelings ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
• 11:5911:59, 12 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ As far as we are concerned, we are creatures of Lord Brahma's creation. Under the circumstances, therefore, we cannot offer you adequate prayers, but as far as our ability allows, we have expressed our feelings ‎No edit summary
• 11:5611:56, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ When that Supreme Personality of Godhead who is lying on the Garbhodaka Ocean entered the heart of Brahma, Brahma brought his intelligence to bear, and with the intelligence invoked he began to create the universe as it was before ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ The scheduled creations and annihilations take place in terms of the supreme will. There are other creations due to interactions of material elements which take place by the intelligence of Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5511:55, 12 June 2024 diff hist +15‎ The higher authorities, as appointed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are Lord Brahma and all other Prajapatis and Manus. Thus from the beginning of creation it can be seen that the first creature is the most intelligent ‎No edit summary
• 11:5511:55, 12 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ Sometimes, when one wants to become as learned as Lord Brahma, he employs his intelligence in the worship of the goddess of learning, Sarasvati ‎No edit summary
• 11:5411:54, 12 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ Lord Brahma was very angry at his son’s impudence, & he showed signs which definitely proved this to be so. He was even prepared to condemn Bhrgu by cursing him, but because Bhrgu was his son, Lord Brahma controlled his anger with his great intelligence ‎No edit summary
• 11:5211:52, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ He (Brahma) was given the required intelligence, which is so powerful and extensive that he is almost independent of the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5211:52, 12 June 2024 diff hist −41‎ Brahma, the first created being, became the most intelligent person by his tapasya, austerity, and thus he came to this realization. We must therefore take all knowledge from Brahma, who became perfect by his tapasya ‎No edit summary
• 11:5111:51, 12 June 2024 diff hist −48‎ Brahma, the first created being, became the most intelligent person by his tapasya, austerity, and thus he came to this realization. We must therefore take all knowledge from Brahma, who became perfect by his tapasya ‎No edit summary
• 11:5111:51, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma is supposed to be the most intellectual personality within this universe. My point is that in the beginning the creation was the most intelligent personality, not that in the creation there was lower animals. No ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 12 June 2024 diff hist +5‎ Brahma is supposed to be the most intellectual personality within this universe. My point is that in the beginning the creation was the most intelligent personality, not that in the creation there was lower animals. No ‎No edit summary
• 11:5011:50, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma also entered His heart with intelligence, but even then the Cosmic Being could not be prevailed upon to get up. Lord Rudra also entered His heart with the ego, but even then the Cosmic Being did not stir ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 12 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ Although Brahma has one head in each direction, he voluntarily brought all his heads to the ground & touched Krsna's feet with the tips of his four helmets. Although his intelligence works in every direction, he surrendered everything before boy Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ The Sanskrit word for a human being is manusya, "coming from Manu." So Manu is also coming from Brahma. In this way, as the conception of a first creature, Adam, similarly, a first living being is Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 12 June 2024 diff hist −59‎ The first living entity to come out was Lord Brahma, who is independently able to create the rest of the manifested universe ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 12 June 2024 diff hist −33‎ The first living creature, the perfect person within this material world who got instruction there, that is the beginning of creation. Beginning of creation is not crude or ignorance. Beginning of creation is first-class knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 12 June 2024 diff hist −16‎ Brahma was the only living being at that time because there was no other creation and none could be found there except himself ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 12 June 2024 diff hist −19‎ Brahma was the first living entity, and he was empowered by the Supreme Lord to act in charge of the mode of passion ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 12 June 2024 diff hist −12‎ When Brahma was first created, he could not apply his creative energy to arrange the cosmic situation. At first there was only sound, vibrating the word tapa, which indicates the acceptance of hardships for spiritual realization ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 12 June 2024 diff hist −8‎ The all-powerful Brahma, who was born from the lotus flower, pacified the boy with gentle words, accepting his request, and said: Do not cry. I shall certainly do as you desire ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 12 June 2024 diff hist +12‎ Lord Brahma is a great devotee of the Lord who has earnestly accepted the lotus feet of the Lord as the supreme truth ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 12 June 2024 diff hist −8‎ Lord Brahma accompanied by all the demigods, the great saintly persons, the inhabitants of Pitrloka, the Manus, the munis, and such leaders as Daksa, Bhrgu & Angira, as well as Karttikeya & Lord Siva, accepted Lord Vamanadeva as the protector of everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 12 June 2024 diff hist −16‎ In his former body, which was transcendental, affection for sex life was forbidden, and Brahma therefore had to accept another body to allow himself to be connected with sex ‎No edit summary

11 June 2024

• 13:4613:46, 11 June 2024 diff hist +7‎ When Aghasura was being killed by Krsna, who was accompanied by His associates, Brahma was astonished, but when he saw that Krsna was very much enjoying His pastimes of lunch, he was even more astonished & wanted to test whether Krsna was actually there ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 11 June 2024 diff hist +7‎ Since Lord Brahma had come to Priyavrata in accordance with the orders of the Supreme Lord, he first wanted to dispel any suspicions that he might be acting as Priyavrata's enemy ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 11 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ Since Brahma had promised, he wanted to grant all the benedictions asked (by Hiranyakasipu). The word durlabhan indicates that one should not take benedictions one cannot enjoy peacefully ‎No edit summary
• 13:4313:43, 11 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ Brahmaji wanted to create the whole cosmic situation as it was in the previous millennium, and because, in the last devastation, knowledge of the Absolute Truth was altogether erased from the universe, he desired that the same knowledge again be renovated ‎No edit summary
• 13:4313:43, 11 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ Brahma, with his maya, wanted to test whether Krsna was actually present ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 11 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ Brahma first wanted to impress upon Priyavrata that although these great personalities are all authorities, they cannot possibly disobey the orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is described as deva, which means "always glorious ‎No edit summary
• 13:4213:42, 11 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ Brahma adopted the aroha-pantha. He wanted to understand Krsna's mystic power by his own limited, conceivable power, and therefore he himself was mystified ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 11 June 2024 diff hist −10‎ Herein (SB 2.7.43-45) Brahmaji, the greatest of all material living beings, acknowledges this truth (God is knowable only to surrendered souls) . Therefore, the fruitless spoiling of energy by pursuing the path of experimental knowledge must be given up ‎No edit summary
• 13:3713:37, 11 June 2024 diff hist −9‎ On account of activity of yogamaya, the day on which Brahma stolen, and they could not understand how yogamaya was working ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 11 June 2024 diff hist +11‎ Brahma, to test Krsna's Lordship, stole all the Lord's calves and cowherd boys with his own mystic power. Sri Krsna responded, however, by replacing all the calves and boys in the field ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ You cannot calculate. You cannot go to Brahma, you cannot go even to the moon planet. And what to speak of Brahmaloka is the ultimate, the remotest part of this universe. So by your direct experience, you cannot calculate ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Whoever executes his occupational duty (sva-dharma) for one hundred births (for instance, if a brahmana continues to act as a brahmana) becomes eligible for promotion to Brahmaloka, the planet where Lord Brahma lives ‎No edit summary
• 13:3413:34, 11 June 2024 diff hist −4‎ When Lord Brahma, who was born of a lotus flower, saw that the effulgence of his residence, Brahmaloka, had been reduced by the glaring effulgence from the toenails of Lord Vamanadeva, he approached the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Virtuous persons who reach Brahmaloka by dint of their pious work become masters of various planets after the resurrection of Brahma ‎No edit summary
• 13:3413:34, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Those who are materialistic can go high up to Brahmaloka where Brahma is, but those who are Krsna conscious will reject even that. They neglect even the impersonal brahma-jyotir. They don't care for it ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ There are innumerable rulers all over the universe in different varieties of planets: the sun-god in the sun planet, the moon-god in the moon planet, Indra in the heavenly planet, Vayu, Varuna, and those in the Brahmaloka planet, where Brahma is living ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ The word paramesthyam is very significant in this connection. Paramesthyam is also called Brahmaloka; it is the planet on which Lord Brahma lives ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 11 June 2024 diff hist −10‎ The age of the inhabitants of the Brahmaloka planet is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita. The inhabitants of this small planet earth can hardly calculate even the duration of one day of Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Taking his own daughter, Revati, Kakudmi went to Lord Brahma in Brahmaloka, which is transcendental to the three modes of material nature, and inquired about a husband for her ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ One who has attained the place (Brahmaloka) by dint of virat or Hiranyagarbha worship is liberated along with the liberation of Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 11 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Lord Brahma, who is situated in the highest planetary system (Brahmaloka), has to die. Lord Brahma's birth & death may be different from an ordinary man's, but within this material world he cannot avoid the distresses of birth, old age, disease and death ‎No edit summary current