Brahmā
ब्रह्मा brahmāThe creator god of the Trimūrti, depicted with four heads and seated on a lotus, consort of Sarasvatī; despite his cosmic role he is very rarely worshipped. Distinct from the neuter Brahman, the Absolute.
Where this term appears
- Who is Bhairava? Deities
Bhairava is the fierce form of Shiva. His name comes from the root bhi, fear, and means the frightful one, though the tradition holds that his terror is aimed at…
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Shiva is the supreme reality for the Shaiva traditions, and, by one widely cited estimate, for something like a quarter of all Hindus, though such figures are rough…
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
Hindu cosmology describes not one creation but a beginningless cycle. The universe is a brahmāṇḍa, a cosmic egg, breathed out and drawn back in across immense spans…
- The Aghorīs Lineages
The Aghorīs are a small Śaiva ascetic tradition of the cremation ground, who worship Shiva in his Aghora, or 'non-terrible,' aspect. Their transgressive practices,…
- The History of Sanatana Dharma: A Timeline History
The Chāndogya gives the formula tat tvam asi , that thou art. The Bṛhadāraṇyaka gives ahaṃ brahmāsmi , I am brahman .
- Brahma, Brahman, Brahmin: what's the difference? Journal
…ing of the great sentence tat tvam asi , "that thou art," and of aham brahmāsmi , "I am Brahman." When Hinduism is called monistic, this is why: at the deepest level there is one reality, and it is Brahman.
- The Court of Vishnu Treatise
Vishnu, like Shiva, is never alone — but where Shiva's retinue is a wild cremation-ground host, Vishnu's is an ordered celestial court, and it carries the most…
- The Government of the Cosmos Treatise
The lokapalas, navagrahas and saptarishis are the administrative classes of the Hindu cosmos — the officers who govern space, time and law. The lokapalas or…