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06:1006:10, 14 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma told Rudra: O best among the demigods, there is no need for you to generate living entities of this nature. They have begun to devastate everything on all sides with the fiery flames from their eyes, and they have even attacked me ‎No edit summary current
06:0706:07, 14 June 2024 diff hist −14‎ To become Brahma is not a very easy thing. Brahma is such a big post, and it is given to a very qualified living entity who is highly advanced in austerities and penance. But he is also a living entity like us ‎No edit summary current
06:0406:04, 14 June 2024 diff hist −12‎ The sun manifests his brilliance in a gem, although it is stone. Similarly, the original Personality of Godhead, Govinda, manifests His special power in a pious living entity. Thus the living entity becomes Brahma and manages the affairs of the universe ‎No edit summary current
06:0406:04, 14 June 2024 diff hist +9‎ Suppose in next life I become some demigod like Lord Brahma or the Moon or the Sun. They are all demigods. Or Vayu, Varuna. The Vaisnava says, - No, we don't want this ‎No edit summary current
06:0306:03, 14 June 2024 diff hist +9‎ So here this material world, either you become a tiger, either you become Lord Brahma or you become a small ant, you have to struggle for your existence. This is material world ‎No edit summary
06:0106:01, 14 June 2024 diff hist +9‎ I can become a demigod, I can become a cat, I can become a dog, I can become Brahma - there are so many forms of life. In the next life I shall have to accept one of these forms, even if I do not want to ‎No edit summary
05:4105:41, 14 June 2024 diff hist +9‎ Brahma's post is so exalted that when there is no living entity available, then Lord Visnu Himself becomes Brahma, the post is so important. My point is that although he's so pious, greatly exalted, still, he had to purify himself ‎No edit summary current

06:3106:31, 13 June 2024 diff hist +9‎ Our proposition is that a living being coming from the living being. Brahma is living being, or Adam is living being. Then the living being does not come from matter ‎No edit summary current
06:3006:30, 13 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ One should not think of Brahmaji as a dead great-grandfather, as we have experience on this planet. He is the oldest great-grandfather, and he is still living, and Narada is also living ‎No edit summary current
06:2906:29, 13 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ It is the body that is destined to die, whether the body be that of Lord Brahma or of a small ant. One should not think that one is liberated because one can live millions and millions of years ‎No edit summary current
06:2706:27, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Bheda-drstya means that Brahma sometimes thinks that he is independent of the Supreme Lord, or he thinks of himself as one of the three equally independent incarnations ‎No edit summary current
06:2606:26, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ The word advayam, meaning - one without a second, is also significant. Because Brahma was overcast by Krsna's maya, he was thinking himself the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
06:2606:26, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Krsna was playing like a dramatic actor. Because Brahma had some false prestige, thinking that he had some power, Krsna showed him his real position. A similar incident occurred when Brahma went to see Krsna in Dvaraka ‎No edit summary current
06:2406:24, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Here (in SB 3.32.12-15) the word bheda-drstya occurs because Brahma has a inclination to think that he is as independent as Rudra. Sometimes Brahma thinks that he is independent of the Supreme Lord, and the worshiper also thinks that Brahma is independent ‎No edit summary current
06:2406:24, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma had considered himself absolute, thinking himself the only powerful deity, but now his pride was subdued, and he again became merely one of the demigods - an important demigod, of course, but a demigod nonetheless ‎No edit summary current
06:2306:23, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma could not figure out how there could be two sets of calves and cowherd boys exactly alike. Although thinking and thinking, he could not understand at all ‎No edit summary current
06:2106:21, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Manu replied: To expand himself in Vedic knowledge, Lord Brahma, the personified Veda, from his face created you, the brahmanas, who are full of austerity, knowledge and mystic power and are averse to sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
06:1906:19, 13 June 2024 diff hist +12‎ Here (in SB 4.2.30) it is stated, brahma ca brahmanan. Brahma means the Vedas. Aham brahmasmi means "I am in full knowledge ‎No edit summary current
06:1906:19, 13 June 2024 diff hist −19‎ He (Brahma) admits that in spite of his perfect knowledge in the Vedas, he was unable to know the glories of the Lord. Since no one can be more than Lord Brahma, how can a so-called Vedantist be perfectly cognizant of the Absolute Truth? ‎No edit summary current
06:1806:18, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahmaji does not want to become a speculator dependent on the strength of his personal knowledge and conditioned to material bondage ‎No edit summary
06:1806:18, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma is the original source of all scientific knowledge. He is born directly from the transcendental body of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, who is never seen by any creature of this material universe and therefore always remains unmanifested ‎No edit summary current
06:1706:17, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma is the direct recipient of Vedic knowledge from the Personality of Godhead, and anyone discharging his entrusted duties in disciplic succession from Brahma is sure to gain fame in this life and salvation in the next ‎No edit summary current
06:1606:16, 13 June 2024 diff hist +7‎ Brahma is called brahma-linga, which indicates that his entire form consists of Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
06:1506:15, 13 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Because, in the last devastation, knowledge of the Absolute Truth was altogether erased from the universe, Brahma desired that the same knowledge again be renovated; otherwise there would be no meaning in the creation ‎No edit summary current
06:1206:12, 13 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ This long duration of life (Brahma's) may not be believed by "the frog in the well," but persons who have a realization of the truths mentioned in the BG accept the existence of a great personality who creates the variegatedness of the complete universe ‎No edit summary current
06:1106:11, 13 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Devaki prayed - After many millions of years, when Lord Brahma comes to the end of his life, the annihilation of the cosmic manifestation takes place. At that time the five elements - namely earth, water, fire, air and ether - enter into the mahat-tattva ‎No edit summary current
06:1006:10, 13 June 2024 diff hist +8‎ Lord Brahma's duration of life is so long that it is difficult to estimate even the duration of one day in his life, and yet Lord Brahma also dies, as do the residents of his planet ‎No edit summary current
06:0606:06, 13 June 2024 diff hist −10‎ Actually we see that we are conditioned, and there is no possibility to trace out the history. Many, many Brahma's life . . . not only one Brahma's; there are so many Brahmas changed, and we are conditioned. Therefore we are called eternally conditioned ‎No edit summary current
06:0406:04, 13 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ The merging of the living beings into the body of Maha-Visnu takes place automatically at the end of Brahma's one hundred years. But that does not mean that the individual living being loses his identity ‎No edit summary current
06:0406:04, 13 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ The longest duration of one hundred years belongs to Brahma, but although the life of Brahma is very long, it expires in the course of time ‎No edit summary current
06:0306:03, 13 June 2024 diff hist −18‎ Such days and nights (four ages of earth) accumulate into months and years, and Brahma lives for one hundred such years. At the end of Brahma's life, the complete universal manifestation is vanquished ‎No edit summary current
06:0306:03, 13 June 2024 diff hist −22‎ Since Brahma lives for one hundred of his years, it is calculated that there are 504,000 Manus manifest during the lifetime of one Brahma ‎No edit summary current
06:0206:02, 13 June 2024 diff hist 0‎ Lord Brahma, a human being and an ant all live for one hundred years, but their lifetimes of one hundred years are different from one another. This world is a relative world, and its relative moments of time are different ‎No edit summary current
05:5905:59, 13 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ Out of disgust, Brahma threw off the body of ignorance, and taking this opportunity, Yaksas and Raksasas sprang for possession of the body, which continued to exist in the form of night. Night is the source of hunger and thirst ‎No edit summary current

14:5114:51, 12 June 2024 diff hist −21‎ The greatest personality within this universe is Lord Brahma, and Dhruva Maharaja wanted a position even greater than his ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 12 June 2024 diff hist −61‎ His (God's) potencies are immeasurable, as confirmed in the Vedas. He is the greatest of all, and all others, even the greatest of all living beings, namely Brahmaji, admits that the best thing for us is to surrender unto Him ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 12 June 2024 diff hist −6‎ Brahma the greatest self-realized mystic ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 12 June 2024 diff hist −26‎ Brahma is always a jiva-tattva. The highest pious living being, or the greatest devotee of the Lord, is empowered with the potency of the Lord for creation, and he is called Brahma ‎No edit summary current
14:4914:49, 12 June 2024 diff hist +19‎ Brahma is always a jiva-tattva. The highest pious living being, or the greatest devotee of the Lord, is empowered with the potency of the Lord for creation, and he is called Brahma ‎No edit summary
14:4714:47, 12 June 2024 diff hist −9‎ The great saint Narada said: Once upon a time when the four sons of Lord Brahma named Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanat-kumara were wandering throughout the three worlds, they came by chance to Visnuloka ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ Krsna called all the Brahmas, who immediately came to visit Him. The catur-mukha Brahma, the four-headed Brahma of this universe, thought himself a very insignificant creature in the presence of so many Brahmas with so many heads ‎No edit summary
14:4714:47, 12 June 2024 diff hist −20‎ In this verse (SB 4.1.15) we find the words atma-isa-brahma-sambhavan. Atma means the Supersoul, or Visnu, isa means Lord Siva, and brahma means the four-headed Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 12 June 2024 diff hist −19‎ The Vedas are considered to have been spoken by the Supreme Lord. They were first realized by Brahma, who is the first created being within the universe - tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye - SB 1.1.1 ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 12 June 2024 diff hist +10‎ The Personality of Godhead in His Garbhodakasayi Visnu feature begets Brahma, the first created person in the material world, from His navel lotus stem and not in the womb of the goddess of fortune, who is eternally engaged in His service ‎No edit summary
14:4314:43, 12 June 2024 diff hist −12‎ The entire cosmic manifestation is described herein (SB 6.4.48) as guna-vigrahah, the form of the Lord's qualities. From the cosmic universal form, the first creation is Lord Brahma, who is the cause of all living entities ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 12 June 2024 diff hist +29‎ Tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye: (SB 1.1.1) "It is He only who first imparted Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahma, the first created being." Therefore He is the original guru ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 12 June 2024 diff hist +29‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: The first created being and most powerful demigod in this universe is Lord Brahma, who is always responsible for developing universal affairs ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 12 June 2024 diff hist +29‎ Our Vedic information is that the first creation is the most intellect, that is the most intellectual personality within this universe, Brahma ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 12 June 2024 diff hist +10‎ Lord Brahma is the first created being within this universe and is empowered by the Supreme Lord to create ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 12 June 2024 diff hist −11‎ If we trace our father's father back, we will find that he was also a person, and that his father was a person, and so on all the way back to Lord Brahma, who was the first created person in this universe ‎No edit summary current

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