How Various Beings Came Into Existence at the Time of Creation
When he actually set about creating, first of all Asuras came out from the shank of his legs. Seeing this, he left that Tamomaya shareera. That body became night.
Then he acquired another body of satwa guna. In that body, Devas came out of Brahma’s mouth. He left that body also. This body that he left behind became day.
He acquired another body which was partially satwik. From the sides of this body came out the Pitrugana. Brahma discarded this body also, and it became the sayam sandhya — evening twilight.
He acquired another body which was partially rajasik. From this body the humans originated. Once he left this body, that became the pratah sandhya — the morning twilight. Because of this, men become active in the morning, and the Pitrugana become active in the night.
So even time is part of creator Brahma’s body only — time as in day, night, morning twilight, and evening twilight. When we say creation, we have this tendency to look at only the physical world around us. Not only the physical world and space, even time originated from Brahma.
Brahma assumed another body which was of rajoguna. He created hunger with that body. From that hunger was born desire — kama. Your desire for food arises when you are hungry. Hunger for anything gives rise to desire towards that.
Brahma created beings that are always hungry. They were all of fierce forms. Some of them ran towards Brahma himself to eat him. Others prevented them.
मैवं भो रक्ष्यतामेष यैरुक्तं राक्षसास्तु ते
ऊचुः खादाम इत्यन्ये ये ते यक्षास्तु जक्षणात्
Those who wanted to eat Brahma became known as Yakshas. Those who wanted to protect him became known as Rakshasas.
When you say Rakshasa, don’t always think that they are always cruel, unscrupulous beings with two horns on the head, as we always see in Puranic serials. They sometimes have a good side also.
Seeing all this commotion, Brahma’s hair fell down, and again the same hair climbed on top of his head. They became snakes. Snakes have got two names — Ahi and Sarpa. Because they fell down, the name Ahi came; because they climbed up again, the name Sarpa came.
Brahma suddenly became angry, he turned yellow in color, and all the predators such as lion, tiger, and leopard were born.
Then Brahma started singing in a joyous mood. The Gandharvas were born.
Brahma’s own longevity became birds — वयसः वयांसि.
From his chest were born sheep.
From his mouth, goats.
From the stomach and sides — cows.
From the legs of Brahma — horses, elephants, donkeys, deer, and camels.
From the hair on the body of Brahma came the tubers such as potato and fruit-yielding plants.
From his face in the front were born Gayatri, Rik mantras, and the yajnas — Trivrit Soma, Rathantara, and Agnishtoma.
From his right face — mantras in prose format (Yajus), mantras of Yajurveda, the meter called Trishtup, and the yajnas Panchadashastoma, Brihatsama, and Ukthya.
From Brahma’s face facing backwards — Samas, Jagatee chandas, yajnas called Sapta Dashastoma, Vairoopa, and Atiratra.
From his face on the left-hand side — Atharva Veda, Anushtup chandas, and the yajnas Aptoryama and Vairaja.
Now this is all a mere reproduction of what existed in the previous kalpa. Nature, form, and behaviour of whatever he created were exactly the same as it was in the earlier kalpa. Brahma simply follows Sri Hari’s master plan. Even the names of whatever he created were the same.
This is what Brahma does at the beginning of every kalpa. This is how he creates Vishwa, the universe, at the beginning of every kalpa. This Vishwa is nothing but Sri Hari, who has transformed himself using his own Maya Shakti.
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