The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 31 : Lord Brahma - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 31 🌹

🌴 Lord Brahma - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻  The Lotus-Born Creator 🌻

Brahma is born in a lotus which sprouts from the navel of the cosmic person. 

The lotus is the ever unfolding principle of space as its content. The ancient scientists called it “Space Mind” or in Sanskrit “Mahat”; our mind being a part of it.

Brahma questions himself, “Where am I and wherefrom this lotus sprouts?” Then he makes a journey down the barrel to know the depth of the ocean upon which he is floating. Then he ponders as to how to create this unit creation. 

From the yonder skies of the cosmic existence he receives the feeling that he is not an entity separated from the rest; that he is a part of the whole and he is a world within a world and a creator within the creator. Thus, he comes to understand that he is not the creator but a creator.

The subtle stalk of the lotus is also called Brahma Danda, the rod of the creator. We hold it inside our vertebral column as the Sushumna, from which the centres or chakras emerge. 

To hold an outer rod, as do kings or bishops, is symbolic for this vertical life of the serpent fire.

The masculine form of “Brahma”, the four-faced creator, is different from the absolute One who is also named with the neutral form “Brahman” or Narayana, Para-Brahman and “the background”. 

The creation began with an impulse which emerged from the absolute One who is the basis for all in creation. 

With the emergence of this impulse, time and nature are formed. This impulse is described as an egg which emerges from Brahman and is therefore also called Brahmananda, the Cosmic Egg.

The symbolism of the egg and the circle form one of the major keys of the ancient wisdom. 

“The Lord made the egg out of the waters and made the seed of creation out of the water in the egg. As a seed he entered as his own presence, I AM”, says the Bhagavatam.

The self-effulgent golden egg of Brahma’s manifestation is also the “golden navel”. 

Since he comes out of the background along with the egg, the four-faced Brahma is also regarded as the Lord himself in the capacity of his son. 

The Rig Veda describes the parent personality of the background a s eternal while the child personality is periodical in his emerging and merging. 

The period between an emerging and merging is called one span of creation which is called a Day of Brahma in the Puranas. It is divided into fourteen equal parts called Manavantaras. 

Each Manvantara is presided over by a great consciousness which is called a Manu. There are 14 Manus which belong to the children born out of the mind of Brahma. 

A Manu is the prototype of each human race in creation. The present humanity belongs to the 7th Manu called Vaivasvata Manu.

Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Doctrine of Eternal Presence / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Science of Symbolism.

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