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Re: Q: About (god) Brahma
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Subject: Re: Q: About (god) Brahma
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From: Don Dancing Feather <dms@efn.org>
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 07:58:20 GMT
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From news@efn.org Sun Nov 20 02: 49:22 1994
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Namaste! As I have recalled hearing or reading, there is indeed one
Brahma temple in India, an obscure one in some obscure location somewhere
I would assume. As far as why?...Historical record would seem to allude
to early Vedic and Rudra worship being supplanted by the
evolution of the great threads of Shaivaism, Shaktism, and Vaishavism.
The Shivalingam story is the oft recited scriptural story. It would be
within the forgiving and compassionate aspect of Shiva for Shankar to
bestow some benevolence Brahma's way.
Parvati Devi would always make sure that Shiva remembered to be
nice...that is the classic interpretation of the anima aspect of the
divine, the feminine... In the Jewish Qabbalistic tradition and before, it
is Shekinah, the Goddess of the night, who flies up to heaven to introcede
with Adonai, the Almighty Lord in his impersonal form as the dispassionate
bestower of karma and adjudicator of where the next lighting bolt should
strike, and to tell Him to remember to take it easy on us mere fallable
mortals...to remember to be merciful. Shekinah is very similar in this
aspect to that nature of Parvati with Shiva, and also she is known as the
one who hears human's cries, very much like the meaning of the name of the
Chinese Goddess Kwan Yin, Queen of Heaven...also known as she who hears
our cries...
So regardless, no matter what the banishment, there is always
room for mercy...
I think, also, perhaps, that it could be also to remind us that
there is an aspect of the Divine which is only to be found within us, and
cannot be pictured without. Only within us...
Ram Das Nataraj
dms@efn.org
--"Only one mountaintop, many paths up to it..." --Gautama Buddha
On 17 Nov 1994, MaLl quew wrote:
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> In article <3aam4p$opf@ucunix.san.uc.edu> pant@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Rajiv Pant ( Betul )) writes:
> >our Indian culture and Mythology. He then asked me about the origin
> >of (god) Brahma -- the part about a lotus emerging from the navel. I
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> To my knowledge, there is no story. A lotus emerged from the navel of
> Lord Vishnu, and brhamna emerged from the lotus, it is his birth place
> and his residence. Knowledgeable netters may correct me.
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> >P.S. He also had another explaination for why Brahma has no Temples or
> >worship. I recalled a different story from my childhood. What are the
> >various reasons (stories) behind this? Thanks for your time and help.
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> This has a story. Lord Shiva has a Atma Lingam (Atma = soul; Lingam =
> physical representatino of Lord Shiva). It spanned from -infinite to
> + infinite i.e. no one knew either ends. Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma
> went in each direction to find the ends. After several days of search,
> Lord Vishnu gives up saying he is unable to find it.. But Brahma claims
> to have found one end. But actually he was lying. He colludes with a
> flower to concoct that story. After hearing the concocted story,
> Lord Shiva curses him that he will not have a temple and that the flower
> should not be used in his (Shiva's) prayers. (I forget the name of the
> flower).
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> Hope this was reasonably correct.
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> --Srinivas
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