Slokam- 1

Brahmas Lotus is our Mother’s womb in which we are born and the amniotic fluid in our Mother’s reproductive system is the ocean that Brahma perceives as covering the whole universe. Just as the new born tries to orient itself to its surroundings, Brahma tries to find his bearings.

Brahma is endowed with four faces and eight eyes, giving him a 360 view. 

Most importantly, curiosity is invoked in Brahma to know where the lotus on which he was seated emerged from.  This curiosity marks the emergence of intelligence. The drive to know the source and the path that leads to the objective.  This is the same curiosity that we are endowed with in attempting to relate to the Universe. This curiosity is driven by a survival instinct as well as an intellectual need to establish the origins. The intellectual need arises from the objective of ‘knowing’.  This need to ‘know’ is the attempt to rationalize the observed phenomena.  The attempt to rationalize is the attempt to relate objects, events and beings into one cause and effects chain, set in neat time sequence. The implication of rationalization is that once we are able to establish a sequence,  we would be in a position to control the environment, or at least be able to side step any possible dangers that may arise.

Every thought that is attributed to Brahma in these slokams is exactly similar to what passes through our minds

Brahma’s curiosity is expounded in greater detail in the following slokams.