In fact, it is hard to find a temple dedicated to Brahma. One such temple is located in Pushkar in Rajasthan. According to the Puranas , Brahma is the son of God, and often referred to as Prajapati. Wishing to create the universe, Brahman first created the water, in which he placed his seed.
This seed transformed into a golden egg, from which Brahma appeared. According to another legend, Brahma is self-born out of a lotus flower which grew from the navel of Vishnu. In the Hindu pantheon, Brahma is commonly represented as having four heads, four arms, and red skin. Unlike all the other Hindu gods, Brahma carries no weapon in his hands.
He holds a water-pot, a spoon, a book of prayers or the Vedas, a rosary and sometimes a lotus. He sits on a lotus in the lotus pose and moves around on a white swan, possessing the magical ability to separate milk from a mixture of water and milk.
Brahma is often depicted as having long, white beard, with each of his heads reciting the four Vedas. Brahma presides over 'Brahmaloka,' a universe that contains all the splendors of the earth and all other worlds.
This day is equivalent to four billion earth years, at the end of which the whole universe gets dissolved. After Brahma's "death", it is necessary that another of his years pass until he is reborn and the whole creation begins anew. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem called "Brahma" that was published in the Atlantic in , which shows many ideas from Emerson's reading of Hindu scriptures and philosophy.
He interpreted Brahma as "unchanging reality" in contrast to Maya, "the changing, illusory world of appearance. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. There are only two temples in the whole of India devoted to him, compared with the many thousands devoted to the other two. Brahma has four heads and it is believed that from these heads came the four Vedas the most ancient religious texts for Hindus.
Some also believe that the caste system , or four varnas, came from different part of Brahma's body. There are a number of stories in the Hindu mythology which point to why he is rarely worshipped.
These are two of them. The first view is that 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. 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. A second view of why Brahma is not worshipped, and a more sympathetic one, is that Brahma's role as the creator is over. It is left to Vishnu to preserve the world and Shiva to continue its path of cosmic reincarnation.
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