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March 4, 2007
Brahma Is Lonely
something to read while i busy myself with this addiction
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In the beginning, there was nothing but the Great Self, Brahman. That is to say, nothing but Brahman existed. When you sacrifice to this god or that goddess, it is really only Brahman that you are worshipping. He is behind all things.
Now Brahman looked around himself and saw nothing.. He felt fear. Fear of what? Nothing but Brahman existed. He was all alone and in order to fear, there must have been something else to fear. But Brahman was lonely. Even today lonely people oftern have fear as their only companion, whether or not there is an object to fear.
Brahman took the form of Brahma, the Creator. Brahma felt no delight; lonely people never do. He yearned for someone to keep him company and his thoughts split the temporary body he was using into two parts, like the halves of a clamshell coming apart. One of the two parts was male and the other, female. They looked on each other as husband and wife. To this day, a happily married couple are like two parts of one being with Brahma in both of them. Now Brahma knew that these first humans would need fire to prosper. So he created fire out of his own mouth. To this day, hair grows on the cheek but not on the inside.
The male and female looked at each other and, recognizing that they were two halves of the same being, they united, making love in the usual way. Humankind was thus conceived.
But the female thought, "How can he make love to me if we are part of the same being?" So she now tried to elude the male by changing into a cow. But he then changed into a bull and they conceived the race of cattle. She then tried to elude him by becoming a mare; he became a stallion and horses were conceived. So it continued dow to the tiniest of creatures. Why did she elude him? Women are still that way; they are often coy and will play hard to get. Men must sometimes change themselves in order to win a woman.
And so the creatures of the earth were developed by the Brahma calling them forth by name and the action of the male and female. Thus, Brahma is inside of every living thing, for they came forth from him.
posted by nyx at March 4, 2007 1:02 AM
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