Lord Brahma saw Krsna directly and composed a prayer based on his realizations â a striking prayer by one who has seen the truth.
Krsna revealed himself to Brama, along with his spiritual planets. Overwhelmed by this transcendental revelation, Brama spoke these words glorifying Krsna. Bramaâs awe and love permeate the text and reveal the workings of the cosmic creation.
The Brama Samhita teaches that transcendence, truth, and ultimate reality can be apprehended only by the mercy of the supreme transcendent entity, the Absolute Truth Himself, and that perception of ultimate reality is a function not of speculative reason but of direct spiritual cognition through divine revelation. This collection is taken from the fifth chapter of the Hymns of Brama, and includes verses 1 to 29.. There were 100 chapters in the Brama Samhita. This 5th chapter of the Brama Samhita was discovered by Lord Chaitanya. The other chapters have not yet been revealed.
The Brama-samhita clearly describes Brahman. KášášŁáša is the Supreme Brahman because of His unlimited knowledge, unlimited potencies, unlimited strength, unlimited influence, unlimited beauty, and unlimited renunciation. Ultimately, therefore, the word Brahman can be applied to KášášŁáša only.
Because the impersonal Brahman is the effulgence emanating as rays of KášášŁášaâs transcendental body, KášášŁáša is the Parabrahman. Everything rests on Brahman, but Brahman rests upon KášášŁáša. The material elements are accepted as the inferior energy of KášášŁáša. By their interaction, the cosmic manifestation takes place, rests on KášášŁáša, and after dissolution again enters into the body of KášášŁáša as His subtle energy. KášášŁáša is therefore the cause of both manifestation and dissolution.
Translator and commentator Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati was a GaudÄŤya Vaisnava Hindu guru, ÄcÄrya, and revivalist in early 20th century India.
