Brahma Quotes:

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

- Ruth St. Denis

topic: Dance, Brahma, Specks, Urges

Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Heaven, Priesthood, Brahma

The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.

- Carl Sagan

source: "Cosmos". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

topic: Ordinary Days, Death And Rebirth, Brahma, Hindu Religion

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

- John Stuart Blackie

source: JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

topic: Drama, Heaven, Earth, Brahma

Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Ocean, Sleep, Eye, Infinite Space, Vishnu

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Life, Needs, Gone, Goeth, Brahma

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

topic: Ideas, Roots, World, Brahma

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Men, Self, Battle, Brahma

Children, everyone should try to wake up before five in the morning. The ideal time for spiritual practices like meditation and chanting is Brahma Muhurta. During this period, sattvic qualities are predominant in nature. Moreover, the mind will be clear and body energetic.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Spiritual, Morning, Children, Brahma

Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Running, Horse, Animal, Water And Fire, Outreach

Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.217, Delacorte Press

topic: Pain, Real, Book, Pain And Loss, Inconsequential

It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: God, Names, Different, Brahma

Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them.

- Mark Thomas

topic: Christian, Atheist, Believe, Brahma, Believe In Allah

One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in the Kosmos-the Universal Self, also known as God, Kami, or Brahma, or by many other names.

- Yasuhiko Kimura

topic: Self Esteem, Expression, Names, Brahma

In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Children, Kindness, Brahma, Loving Kindness

It doesn't matter whether you believe in Christ, Moses, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, or any other being or master. Each one of us has our own beliefs, our own point of view. There are billions of different points of view, but it's the same force of life behind each one of us.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Believe, Views, Different, Different Points Of View, Brahma

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.

- Annie Besant

topic: Yoga, Philosophical, Inspiration, Brahma

Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Isis, Shiva, Goddess, Vishnu, Brahma

Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same. It has always been so in the East, because much dust gathers as time passes. Now, the Upanishads were written in a totally different world. That man has disappeared, that mind has disappeared, that world no more exists.

- Rajneesh

topic: Men, Dust, People, Different Worlds, Brahma

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

- Ron Shelton

source: "Fictional character: Annie Savoy". "Bull Durham", 1988.

topic: Baseball, Jesus, Believe, Vishnu, Duncan

Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this causes me no qualms. I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Believe, Thinking, Punishment, Qualms, Brahma