Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Brahma

ब्रह्मा · brahmā

The creator god, born from a lotus

One of his days lasts a thousand ages, and even he is not permanent.

Brahma is the god who shapes each new creation. At the dawn of his day the worlds unfold, and at nightfall they dissolve again. The Gita uses him as a measure of scale: even his realm, the highest of all, is a place one must return from. He is not the same as Brahman, the absolute reality, though the words are related. Arjuna sees him seated on his lotus within the cosmic form.