Category:Brahma's Mind
Theme Analysis
- Manasa-putra (Mind-born Sons): Lord Brahmā possesses the unique potency to generate progeny directly from his mental energy, creating great sages like Marici and the four Kumaras without physical union.
- Susceptibility to the Modes: Despite his greatness, Brahmā's mind is subject to the modes of nature; when agitated by passion, he creates demons, and when in goodness, he creates sages.
- Bewilderment by Maya: Even the mind of the creator can be bewildered by the Lord's external energy (lust) or His internal potency (yogamāyā), as seen in his confusion during Kṛṣṇa's pastimes.
- Limitations of Speculation: Brahmā frankly admits that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is beyond the reach of his mental speculation and intellectual capacity.
- Protection via Devotion: The only safety for Brahmā's mind against the encroachment of the mode of passion is to remain fixed in meditation on the Supreme Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Creative Potency of Brahmā's Mind.
Pages in category "Brahma's Mind"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
B
- Brahma has a fabulous duration of life, but he was obliged to give up his body due to his grievous sin, even though he had merely contemplated it in his mind without having actually done it
- Brahma receives his mind, intelligence, materials and everything else from Krsna, and then he becomes the secondary creator, the engineer of this universe
- Brahma said, "As far as I am concerned, I admit frankly that for me it is not possible to realize You by my body, mind or speech. What can I say about You, or how can I realize You by my senses?"
- Brahma said, "I cannot even think of You perfectly with my mind, which is the master of the senses. Your qualities, Your activities and Your body cannot be conceived of by any person within this material world"
- Brahma's mind was not in correct order when he created the demons. It must have been full of passion because the entire creation was passionate; therefore such passionate sons were born
F
- First of all this boar was seen no bigger than the tip of a thumb, and within a moment He was as large as a stone. My mind is perturbed. Is He the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu?
- For three days she approached Haridasa Thakura in this way, exhibiting various feminine postures that would bewilder the mind of even Lord Brahma
- From the mind of Lord Brahma, Marici took birth, and from the semen of Marici, Kasyapa appeared from the womb of the daughter of Daksa Maharaja. From Kasyapa, by the womb of Aditi, Vivasvan took birth
I
- I have previously captivated the mind of even Brahma, what to speak of others. Your mind alone have I failed to attract
- In response to the request of Maharaja Citraketu, Angira Rsi, who was born of Lord Brahma's mind, was very merciful toward him. Because the sage was a greatly powerful personality, he performed a sacrifice by offering oblations of sweetrice to Tvasta
O
- O Vidura, we (Maitreya) have heard that Brahma had a daughter named Vak who was born from his body and who attracted his mind toward sex, although she was not sexually inclined towards him
- On the refusal of the sons to obey the order of their father, there was much anger generated in the mind of Brahma, which he tried to control and not express
S
- Sage Kardama, husband of the great Devahuti, was manifested from the shadow of Brahma. Thus all became manifested from either the body or the mind of Brahma
- Simply because Lord Brahma had heard about the Supreme Personality of Godhead from Vedic literature, with a fixed mind he offered the Lord prayers as written or approved by Vedic literature
- Sri Vidura said: O great sage, please let me know how Brahma, the grandfather of the planetary inhabitants, created the bodies of the living entities from his own body and mind after the disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
T
- The playful pastimes of the Lord caused suspicion in the mind of Lord Brahma, and therefore Lord Brahma, to test Krsna's Lordship, stole all the Lord's calves and cowherd boys with his own mystic power
- The sage Maitreya said: O Vidura, after observing the source of his appearance, namely the Personality of Godhead, Brahma prayed for His mercy as far as his mind and words would permit him
- The uncommon features symptomatic of the incarnation of Godhead can bewilder even the mind of Brahma