No Festival, no ritual, no prayer for Brahma. Why so?

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 To understand this, we have to ask ourselves two questions: Why do we want the creator to be acknowledged? Why is the creator in Hindu Mythology not given the same status as the preserver or the destroyer?

When the word "creator" is uttered, we take the bible as the reference point and assume that since god is the creator there, it must be so in the Hindu world as well. But in the Hindu world, creation happens for a reason, and Brahma forgets that reason, which is why he is declared unworthy of worship.

In the Vedas, the Rishis wonder why the world exists and discover that the world exists to help us know ourselves. The idea was elaborated in the Upanishads, where it is said that to understand the self, the primeval being, known as Purusha, the self must be split into two, thereby creating "the other".Thus, "the other exists to understand the self". In the puranas, this abstract idea is expressed through the tale of Brahma.


Brahma created the world to understand who he was. The world- a woman, his creation, hence his daughter. Rather than learn from her, Brahma became enchanted by his own daughter. When she circumambulated Brahma for respect, he popped four heads so that he could see her. Then she turned into a cow-Brahma instantly turned into a bull. When she turned into a goose, he became a gander. In other words, he lost all sense of himself. He became so obsessed with controlling her, conquering her, that he kept turning into the male counterpart of her female form.


Little did he realise that she was material reality, forever restless; She was Shatarupa, she of myriad forms. She was matter, Prakriti. She was energy, Shakti. She was the great delusion of life, Maya.
How can anyone worship one such as Brahma, one who is still chasing the material world rather than trying to understand himself?


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