Worship of Lord Brahma, Part 86

BY: SUN STAFF

Brahma and Saraswati
Sandstone Sculpture, Jhansi

May 06, 2018 — CANADA (SUN) — A serial exploration of places of Lord Brahma's worship.

Brahma's Prayers for Creative Energy

From Srimad Bhagavatam 3rd Canto, Chapter Nine, 1-44

TEXT 1

brahmovaca
jnato 'si me 'dya suciran nanu deha-bhajam
na jnayate bhagavato gatir ity avadyam
nanyat tvad asti bhagavann api tan na suddham
maya-guna-vyatikarad yad urur vibhasi

Lord Brahma said: O my Lord, today, after many, many years of penance, I have come to know about You. Oh, how unfortunate the embodied living entities are that they are unable to know Your personality! My Lord, You are the only knowable object because there is nothing supreme beyond You. If there is anything supposedly superior to You, it is not the Absolute. You exist as the Supreme by exhibiting the creative energy of matter.

TEXT 2

rupam yad etad avabodha-rasodayena
sasvan-nivrtta-tamasah sad-anugrahaya
adau grhitam avatara-sataika-bijam
yan-nabhi-padma-bhavanad aham avirasam

The form which I see is eternally freed from material contamination and has advented to show mercy to the devotees as a manifestation of internal potency. This incarnation is the origin of many other incarnations, and I am born from the lotus flower grown from Your navel home.

TEXT 3

natah param parama yad bhavatah svarupam
ananda-matram avikalpam aviddha-varcah
pasyami visva-srjam ekam avisvam atman
bhutendriyatmaka-madas ta upasrito 'smi

O my Lord, I do not see a form superior to Your present form of eternal bliss and knowledge. In Your impersonal Brahman effulgence in the spiritual sky, there is no occasional change and no deterioration of internal potency. I surrender unto You because whereas I am proud of my material body and senses, Your Lordship is the cause of the cosmic manifestation and yet You are untouched by matter.

TEXT 4

tad va idam bhuvana-mangala mangalaya
dhyane sma no darsitam ta upasakanam
tasmai namo bhagavate 'nuvidhema tubhyam
yo 'nadrto naraka-bhagbhir asat-prasangaih

This present form, or any transcendental form expanded by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, is equally auspicious for all the universes. Since You have manifested this eternal personal form upon whom Your devotees meditate, I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You. Those who are destined to be dispatched to the path of hell neglect Your personal form because of speculating on material topics.

TEXT 5

ye tu tvadiya-caranambuja-kosa-gandham
jighranti karna-vivaraih sruti-vata-nitam
bhaktya grhita-caranah paraya ca tesam
napaisi natha hrdayamburuhat sva-pumsam

O my Lord, persons who smell the aroma of Your lotus feet, carried by the air of Vedic sound through the holes of the ears, accept Your devotional service. For them You are never separated from the lotus of their hearts.

TEXT 6

tavad bhayam dravina-deha-suhrn-nimittam
sokah sprha paribhavo vipulas ca lobhah
tavan mamety asad-avagraha arti-mulam
yavan na te 'nghrim abhayam pravrnita lokah

O my Lord, the people of the world are embarrassed by all material anxieties--they are always afraid. They always try to protect wealth, body and friends, they are filled with lamentation and unlawful desires and paraphernalia, and they avariciously base their undertakings on the perishable conceptions of "my" and "mine." As long as they do not take shelter of Your safe lotus feet, they are full of such anxieties.

TEXT 7

daivena te hata-dhiyo bhavatah prasangat
sarvasubhopasamanad vimukhendriya ye
kurvanti kama-sukha-lesa-lavaya dina
lobhabhibhuta-manaso 'kusalani sasvat

O my Lord, persons who are bereft of the all-auspicious performance of chanting and hearing about Your transcendental activities are certainly unfortunate and are also bereft of good sense. They engage in inauspicious activities, enjoying sense gratification for a very little while.

TEXT 81

ksut-trt-tridhatubhir ima muhur ardyamanah
sitosna-vata-varasair itaretarac ca
kamagninacyuta-rusa ca sudurbharena
sampasyato mana urukrama sidate me

O great actor, my Lord, all these poor creatures are constantly perplexed by hunger, thirst, severe cold, secretion and bile, attacked by coughing winter, blasting summer, rains and many other disturbing elements, and overwhelmed by strong sex urges and indefatigable anger. I take pity on them, and I am very much aggrieved for them.

TEXT 9

yavat prthaktvam idam atmana indriyartha-
maya-balam bhagavato jana isa pasyet
tavan na samsrtir asau pratisankrameta
vyarthapi duhkha-nivaham vahati kriyartha

O my Lord, the material miseries are without factual existence for the soul. Yet as long as the conditioned soul sees the body as meant for sense enjoyment, he cannot get out of the entanglement of material miseries, being influenced by Your external energy.

TEXT 10

ahny aprtarta-karana nisi nihsayana
nana-manoratha-dhiya ksana-bhagna-nidrah
daivahatartha-racana rsayo 'pi deva
yusmat-prasanga-vimukha iha samsaranti

Such nondevotees engage their senses in very troublesome and extensive work, and they suffer insomnia at night because their intelligence constantly breaks their sleep with various mental speculations. They are frustrated in all their various plans by supernatural power. Even great sages, if they are against Your transcendental topics, must rotate in this material world.

TEXT 11

tvam bhakti-yoga-paribhavita-hrt-saroja
asse sruteksita-patho nanu natha pumsam
yad-yad-dhiya ta urugaya vibhavayanti
tat-tad-vapuh pranayase sad-anugrahaya

O my Lord, Your devotees can see You through the ears by the process of bona fide hearing, and thus their hearts become cleansed, and You take Your seat there. You are so merciful to Your devotees that You manifest Yourself in the particular eternal form of transcendence in which they always think of You.

TEXT 12

natiprasidati tathopacitopacarair
aradhitah sura-ganair hrdi baddha-kamaih
yat sarva-bhuta-dayayasad-alabhyayaiko
nana-janesv avahitah suhrd antar-atma

My Lord, You are not very much satisfied by the worship of the demigods, who arrange for Your worship very pompously, with various paraphernalia, but who are full of material hankerings. You are situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul just to show Your causeless mercy, and You are the eternal well-wisher, but You are unavailable for the nondevotee.

TEXT 13

pumsam ato vividha-karmabhir adhvaradyair
danena cogra-tapasa paricaryaya ca
aradhanam bhagavatas tava sat-kriyartho
dharmo 'rpitah karhicid mriyate na yatra

But the pious activities of the people, such as performance of Vedic rituals, charity, austere penances, and transcendental service, performed with a view to worship You and satisfy You by offering You the fruitive results, are also beneficial. Such acts of religion never go in vain.

TEXT 14

sasvat svarupa-mahasaiva nipita-bheda-
mohaya bodha-dhisanaya namah parasmai
visvodbhava-sthiti-layesu nimitta-lila-
rasaya te nama idam cakrmesvaraya

Let me offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Transcendence, who is eternally distinguished by His internal potency. His indistinguishable impersonal feature is realized by intelligence for self-realization. I offer my obeisances unto Him who by His pastimes enjoys the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation.

TEXT 15

yasyavatara-guna-karma-vidambanani
namani ye 'su-vigame vivasa grnanti
te 'naika-janma-samalam sahasaiva hitva
samyanty apavrtamrtam tam ajam prapadye

Let me take shelter of the lotus feet of Him whose incarnations, qualities and activities are mysterious imitations of worldly affairs. One who invokes His transcendental names, even unconsciously, at the time he quits this life, is certainly washed immediately of the sins of many, many births and attains Him without fail.

TEXT 16

yo va aham ca girisas ca vibhuh svayam ca
sthity-udbhava-pralaya-hetava atma-mulam
bhittva tri-pad vavrdha eka uru-prarohas
tasmai namo bhagavate bhuvana-drumaya

Your Lordship is the prime root of the tree of the planetary systems. This tree has grown by first penetrating the material nature in three trunks--as me, Siva and You, the Almighty--for creation, maintenance and dissolution, and we three have grown with many branches. Therefore I offer my obeisances unto You, the tree of the cosmic manifestation.

TEXT 17

loko vikarma-niratah kusale pramattah
karmany ayam tvad-udite bhavad-arcane sve
yas tavad asya balavan iha jivitasam
sadyas chinatty animisaya namo 'stu tasmai

People in general all engage in foolish acts, not in the really beneficial activities enunciated directly by You for their guidance. As long as their tendency for foolish work remains powerful, all their plans in the struggle for existence will be cut to pieces. I therefore offer my obeisances unto Him who acts as eternal time.

TEXT 18

yasmad bibhemy aham api dviparardha-dhisnyam
adhyasitah sakala-loka-namaskrtam yat
tepe tapo bahu-savo 'varurutsamanas
tasmai namo bhagavate 'dhimakhaya tubhyam

Your Lordship, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You who are indefatigable time and the enjoyer of all sacrifices. Although I am situated in an abode which will continue to exist for a time duration of two parardhas, although I am the leader of all other planets in the universe, and although I have undergone many, many years of penance for self-realization, still I offer my respects unto You.

TEXT 19

tiryan-manusya-vibudhadisu jiva-yonisv
atmecchayatma-krta-setu-paripsaya yah
reme nirasta-visayo 'py avaruddha-dehas
tasmai namo bhagavate purusottamaya

O my Lord, by Your own will You appear in the various species of living entities, among animals lower than human beings as well as among the demigods, to perform Your transcendental pastimes. You are not affected by material contamination. You come just to fulfill the obligations of Your own principles of religion, and therefore, O Supreme Personality, I offer my obeisances unto You for manifesting such different forms.

TEXT 20

yo 'vidyayanupahato 'pi dasardha-vrttya
nidram uvaha jathari-krta-loka-yatrah
antar-jale 'hi-kasipu-sparsanukulam
bhimormi-malini janasya sukham vivrnvan

My Lord, You accept the pleasure of sleeping in the water of devastation, where there are violent waves, and You enjoy pleasure on the bed of snakes, showing the happiness of Your sleep to intelligent persons. At that time, all the universal planets are stationed within Your abdomen.

TEXT 21

yan-nabhi-padma-bhavanad aham asam idya
loka-trayopakarano yad-anugrahena
tasmai namas ta udara-stha-bhavaya yoga-
nidravasana-vikasan-nalineksanaya

O object of my worship, I am born from the house of Your lotus navel for the purpose of creating the universe by Your mercy. All these planets of the universe were stationed within Your transcendental abdomen while You were enjoying sleep. Now, Your sleep having ended, Your eyes are open like blossoming lotuses in the morning.

TEXT 22

so 'yam samasta-jagatam suhrd eka atma
sattvena yan mrdayate bhagavan bhagena
tenaiva me drsam anusprsatad yathaham
sraksyami purvavad idam pranata-priyo 'sau

Let the Supreme Lord be merciful towards me. He is the one friend and soul of all living entities in the world, and He maintains all, for their ultimate happiness, by His six transcendental opulences. May He be merciful towards me so that I, as before, may be empowered with the introspection to create, for I am also one of the surrendered souls who are dear to the Lord.

TEXT 23

esa prapanna-varado ramayatma-saktya
yad yat karisyati grhita-gunavatarah
tasmin sva-vikramam idam srjato 'pi ceto
yunjita karma-samalam ca yatha vijahyam

The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is always the benefactor of the surrendered souls. His activities are always enacted through His internal potency, Rama, or the goddess of fortune. I pray only to engage in His service in the creation of the material world, and I pray that I not be materially affected by my works, for thus I may be able to give up the false prestige of being the creator.

TEXT 24

nabhi-hradad iha sato 'mbhasi yasya pumso
vijnana-saktir aham asam ananta-sakteh
rupam vicitram idam asya vivrnvato me
ma ririsista nigamasya giram visargah

The Lord's potencies are innumerable. As He lies down in the water of devastation, I am born as the total universal energy from the navel lake in which the lotus sprouts. I am now engaged in manifesting His diverse energies in the form of the cosmic manifestation. I therefore pray that in the course of my material activities I may not be deviated from the vibration of the Vedic hymns.

TEXT 25

so 'sav adabhra-karuno bhagavan vivrddha-
prema-smitena nayanamburuham vijrmbhan
utthaya visva-vijayaya ca no visadam
madhvya girapanayatat purusah puranah

The Lord, who is supreme and is the oldest of all, is unlimitedly merciful. I wish that He may smilingly bestow His benediction upon me by opening His lotus eyes. He can uplift the entire cosmic creation and remove our dejection by kindly speaking His directions.

TEXT 26

maitreya uvaca
sva-sambhavam nisamyaivam
tapo-vidya-samadhibhih
yavan mano-vacah stutva
virarama sa khinnavat

The sage Maitreya said: O Vidura, after observing the source of his appearance, namely the Personality of Godhead, Brahma prayed for His mercy as far as his mind and words would permit him. Thus having prayed, he became silent, as if tired from his activities of penance, knowledge and mental concentration.

TEXT 27-28

athabhipretam anviksya
brahmano madhusudanah
visanna-cetasam tena
kalpa-vyatikarambhasa

loka-samsthana-vijnana
atmanah parikhidyatah
tam ahagadhaya vaca
kasmalam samayann iva

The Lord saw that Brahma was very anxious about the planning and construction of the different planetary systems and was depressed upon seeing the devastating water. He could understand the intention of Brahma, and thus He spoke in deep, thoughtful words, removing all the illusion that had arisen.

TEXT 29

The Supreme Personality of Godhead then said: O Brahma, O depth of Vedic wisdom, be neither depressed nor anxious about the execution of creation. What you are begging from Me has already been granted before.

TEXT 30

bhuyas tvam tapa atistha
vidyam caiva mad-asrayam
tabhyam antar-hrdi brahman
lokan draksyasy apavrtan

O Brahma, situate yourself in penance and meditation and follow the principles of knowledge to receive My favor. By these actions you will be able to understand everything from within your heart.

TEXT 31

tata atmani loke ca
bhakti-yuktah samahitah
drastasi mam tatam brahman
mayi lokams tvam atmanah

O Brahma, when you are absorbed in devotional service, in the course of your creative activities, you will see Me in you and throughout the universe, and you will see that you yourself, the universe and the living entities are all in Me.

TEXT 32

yada tu sarva-bhutesu
darusv agnim iva sthitam
praticaksita mam loko
jahyat tarhy eva kasmalam

You will see Me in all living entities as well as all over the universe, just as fire is situated in wood. Only in that state of transcendental vision will you be able to be free from all kinds of illusion.

TEXT 33

yada rahitam atmanam
bhutendriya-gunasayaih
svarupena mayopetam
pasyan svarajyam rcchati

When you are free from the conception of gross and subtle bodies and when your senses are free from all influences of the modes of material nature, you will realize your pure form in My association. At that time you will be situated in pure consciousness.

TEXT 34

nana-karma-vitanena
praja bahvih sisrksatah
natmavasidaty asmims te
varsiyan mad-anugrahah

Since you have desired to increase the population innumerably and expand your varieties of service, you shall never be deprived in this matter because My causeless mercy upon you will always increase for all time.

TEXT 35

rsim adyam na badhnati
papiyams tvam rajo-gunah
yan mano mayi nirbaddham
prajah samsrjato 'pi te

You are the original rsi, and because your mind is always fixed on Me, even though you will be engaged in generating various progeny, the vicious mode of passion will never encroach upon you.

TEXT 36

jnato 'ham bhavata tv adya
durvijneyo 'pi dehinam
yan mam tvam manyase 'yuktam
bhutendriya-gunatmabhih

Although I am not easily knowable by the conditioned soul, you have known Me today because you know that My personality is not constituted of anything material, and specifically not of the five gross and three subtle elements.

TEXT 37

tubhyam mad-vicikitsayam
atma me darsito 'bahih
nalena salile mulam
puskarasya vicinvatah

When you were contemplating whether there was a source to the stem of the lotus of your birth and you even entered into that stem, you could not trace out anything. But at that time I manifested My form from within.

TEXT 38

yac cakarthanga mat-stotram
mat-kathabhyudayankitam
yad va tapasi te nistha
sa esa mad-anugrahah

O Brahma, the prayers that you have chanted praising the glories of My transcendental activities, the penances you have undertaken to understand Me, and your firm faith in Me--all these are to be considered My causeless mercy.

TEXT 39

prito 'ham astu bhadram te
lokanam vijayecchaya
yad astausir gunamayam
nirgunam manuvarnayan

I am very much pleased by your description of Me in terms of My transcendental qualities, which appear mundane to the mundaners. I grant you all benedictions in your desire to glorify all the planets by your activities.

TEXT 40

ya etena puman nityam
stutva stotrena mam bhajet
tasyasu samprasideyam
sarva-kama-varesvarah

Any human being who prays like Brahma, and who thus worships Me, shall very soon be blessed with the fulfillment of all his desires, for I am the Lord of all benediction.

TEXT 41

purtena tapasa yajnair
danair yoga-samadhina
raddham nihsreyasam pumsam
mat-pritis tattvavin-matam

It is the opinion of expert transcendentalists that the ultimate goal of performing all traditional good works, penances, sacrifices, charities, mystic activities, trances, etc., is to invoke My satisfaction.

TEXT 42

aham atmatmanam dhatah
presthah san preyasam api
ato mayi ratim kuryad
dehadir yat-krte priyah

I am the Supersoul of every individual. I am the supreme director and the dearest. People are wrongly attached to the gross and subtle bodies, but they should be attached to Me only.

TEXT 43

sarva-veda-mayenedam
atmanatmatma-yonina
prajah srja yatha-purvam
yas ca mayy anuserate

By following My instructions you can now generate the living entities as before, by dint of your complete Vedic wisdom and the body you have directly received from Me, the supreme cause of everything.

TEXT 44

maitreya uvaca
tasma evam jagat-srastre
pradhana-purusesvarah
vyajyedam svena rupena
kanja-nabhas tirodadhe

The sage Maitreya said: After instructing Brahma, the creator of the universe, to expand, the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead in His personal form as Narayana, disappeared.

SERIES INDEX:

Part 1 - Brahma-Karmali in Carambolim, Valpoi, Goa
Part 2 - Pushkar, Rajasthan
Part 3 - Chinch & Asotra, Rajasthan
Part 4 - Eklingji, Udaipur, Rajasthan)
Part 5 - Vasantgarh, Rajasthan)
Part 6 (Rajasthan: Bijoila, Mewar; Chandravati, Sirohi; Kiradu & Sevadi, Jodphur)
Part 7 (Khokhan, Himachal Pradesh)
Part 8 (Tihri-Uttarsal, Himachal Pradesh)
Part 9 (Una, Himachal Pradesh)
Part 10 (Dudhahi, Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh)
Part 11 (Gaya, Bihar)
Part 12 (Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh)
Part 13 (Alampur, Andhra Pradesh)
Part 14 (Kaleshwar, Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh)
Part 15 (Sampradaya Acarya - Lingampally, Andhra Pradesh)
Part 16 (Manthani, Andhra Pradesh)
Part 17 (Gurramguda Village, Andhra Pradesh)
Part 18 (Tirusulam, Tamil Nadu)
Part 19 (Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 20 (Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 21 (Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 22 (Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 23 (Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 24 (Syncretistic Forms of Lord Brahma)
Part 25 (Thirupachur, Tamil Nadu)
Part 26 (Pancheshti/Pancheti, Tamil Nadu)
Part 27 (Pallavaram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 28 (Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu)
Part 29 (Mandagappattu, Tamil Nadu)
Part 30 (Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 31 (Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 32 (Thirumukkoodal, Tamil Nadu)
Part 33 (Thiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu)
Part 34 (Thirunaraiyur, Tamil Nadu)
Part 35 (Thirunaraiyur, Tamil Nadu)
Part 36 (Thiruvengadu, Tamil Nadu)
Part 37 (Thiruvelliyankudi, Tamil Nadu)
Part 38 (Kuthanoor, Tamil Nadu)
Part 39 (Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu)
Part 40 (Kulithalai, Tamil Nadu)
Part 41 (Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu)
Part 42 (Thirupattur, Tamil Nadu)
Part 43 (Pullamangai, Tamil Nadu)
Part 44 (Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu)
Part 45 (Sri Rangam, Tamil Nadu)
Part 46 (Tanjore, Tamil Nadu)
Part 47 (Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu)
Part 48 (Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu)
Part 49 (Darasuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 50 (Thirukkannapuram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 51 (Malayadipatti, Tamil Nadu)
Part 52 (Thiruvadi, Tamil Nadu)
Part 53 (Thirukandiyur, Tamil Nadu)
Part 54 (Thiruparangundram, Tamil Nadu)
Part 55 (Kodumudi, Tamil Nadu)
Part 56 (Thottiyam, Tamil Nadu)
Part 57 (Nallur, Tamil Nadu)
Part 58 (Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu)
Part 59 (Purusha Sukta - The Hymn of Creation)
Part 60 (Kottakkal, Kerala)
Part 61 (Thirunavaya, Kerala)
Part 62 (Triprayar, Kerala)
Part 63 (Kodakkal, Kerala)
Part 64 (Chottanikkara, Kerala)
Part 65 (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)
Part 66 (Thiruvallam, Kerala)
Part 67 (Tulunadu to Ur - Proliferation of Brahma Cult)
Part 68 (Lord Brahma and Abrahamic Cult)
Part 69 (Kolar, Karnataka)
Part 70 (Mullur, Karnataka)
Part 71 (Somnathapur, Halebid & Belur, Karnataka)
Part 72 (Sringeri, Karnataka)
Part 73 (Palli, Udupi, Karnataka)
Part 74 (Brahmalingeswara - Kanajaru, Karnataka)
Part 75 (Brahmalingeshwara - Maranakatte, Karnataka)
Part 76 (Brahmalingesvara Temples, Karnataka)
Part 77 (Brahmalingesvara Temples, Karnataka)
Part 78 (Aihole & Badami, Karnataka)
Part 79 (Lakkundi, Karnataka)
Part 80 (Sravanabelgola, Karnataka)
Part 81 (Kambadahalli, Karnataka)
Part 82 (Jain Brahma Yaksha Temples, Karnataka)
Part 83 (Savadi, Karnataka)
Part 84 (Shimoga and Megunda, Karnataka)
Part 85 (Lord Brahma in Buddhism, Karnataka)
Part 86 (Brahma's Prayers for Creative Energy)

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