Brahma is said to have produced the world by a kind of fall or mistake; and in order to atone for his folly, he is bound to remain in it himself until he works out his redemption. As an account of the origin of things, that is admirable!

These four qualities are among the most beautiful and powerful states of consciousness we can experience. Together they are called in Pali, the language spoken by the Buddha, the brahma-viharas. Brahma means “heavenly.” Vihara means “abode” or “home.” By practicing these meditations, we establish love (Pali, metta), compassion (karuna), sympathetic joy (mudita), and equanimity (upekkha) as our home.

Who leaves behind all human bonds
And has cast off the bonds of heaven,
Detached from all bonds everywhere:
He is the one I call a brahmin.

One who never punishes any living creature either strong or weak, who never kills or even strikes another, such a one I call brahmin.

In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The object was to find a verbal formula to define the Brahman, the ultimate and inexpressible reality beyond human understanding. The idea was to push language as far as it would go, until participants became aware of the ineffable. The challenger, drawing on his immense erudition, began the process by asking an enigmatic question and his opponents had to reply in a way that was apt but equally inscrutable. The winner was the contestant who reduced the others to silence. In that moment of silence, the Brahman was present - not in the ingenious verbal declarations but in the stunning realisation of the impotence of speech. Nearly all religious traditions have devised their own versions of this exercise. It was not a frustrating experience; the finale can, perhaps, be compared to the moment at the end of the symphony, when there is a full and pregnant beat of silence in the concert hall before the applause begins. The aim of good theology is to help the audience to live for a while in that silence.

Krishna says, “I am also Brahman. I am the formless, timeless, spaceless, beginningless, endless Brahman. In each individual, the spark of that Brahman, the Atman, is me.” So Krishna produced each individual; Krishna is each individual; Krishna is within each individual. We are all Krishna. We are all God.

Vişnu, Vişnu, Vişnu Brahma'ya, Brahma'ya, Brahma'ya baktı, baktı, baktı... Aynalar salonunda oturuyorlardı.

Esos fieles enemigos encarnizados del budismo, son sectarios fervientes de la religión brahmánica que se encama en tres personas: Vishma, la divinidad solar; Shiva, la personificación divina de las fuerzas naturales; y Brahma, el jefe supremo de los sacerdotes y legisladores.

Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma...
They sat in the Hall of Mirrors.

If you [can realise Brahman] by standing on your head, or on one foot, or by worshipping five thousand gods with three heads each — welcome to it! ... Do it any way you can! Nobody has any right to say anything. Therefore, Krishna says, if your method is better and higher, you have no business to say that another man’s method is bad, however wicked you may think it.

prāṇāyāma is first and foremost to give us many different possibilities for following the breath. When we follow the breath, the mind will be drawn into the activities of the breath. In this way prāṇāyāma prepares us for the stillness of meditation.

Nenhum filósofo querelante poderá alcançar a pureza por meio de sua doutrina pessoal; ele segue uma luz que ele próprio fabricou, por ele autoprojetada, e daí dizer que e a ''vê''. O verdadeiro brâmane está além do tempo, não se baseia em conceito algum, nem se submete a qualquer seita; compreende todas as teorias correntes, mantendo-se, porém, desapegado de qualquer delas. Liberto dos laços do mundo, embora viva no mundo, segue o sábio, tranquilo,o seu caminho; livre de seitas, em meio aos sectários, livre de agitações, em meio aos agitados, admitindo o que o mundo comete (...) Liberto de todos os conceitos baseados nas coisas vistas e ouvidas, aliviado, pois, de sua carga, não mais está o sábio tranquilo sujeito ao tempo, transcendendo tanto o desejo, quanto a abstinência.

The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.

This vision is always available to us; it doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, or a week, or ten thousand years — we turn on the light and it is illumined. Once we contact our capacity for love and happiness — the good — the light has been turned on. Practicing the brahma-viharas is a way of turning on the light and then tending it. It is a process of deep spiritual transformation.