SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 49

bhasvan yathasma-sakalesu nijesu tejah
sviyam kiyat prakatayaty api yad-vad-atra
brahma ya esa jagad-anda-vidhana-karta
govindam adi purusam tam aham bhajami [49]

Translation: As the Sun, Surya, manifests some of his light in the gems named after him as surya-kanta, similarly, He by whom Brahma is empowered to create the entire material universe—the Primeval Lord Govinda, do I worship.

Purport: Generally there are two types of Brahmas. In certain millennia, when there is a qualified jiva present in the world, the potency of the Lord enters that jiva who then takes the post and executes the universal creative duties of Brahma. For those millennia in which such an eligible jiva is not available, upon the liberation of the Brahma of the previous millennium Krishna delegates His own potency to create the rajo-guna-avatara of Brahma. In actuality, Brahma is superior to a general jiva, yet he is not directly the divinity; and the divinity is present to a greater degree within Sambhu, who has been described previously.

The underlying purport is that the fifty qualities of the general jiva are present in Brahma in a fuller measure than in the jiva, plus he possesses, to a fractional degree, five more qualities not found in the jivas. But those fifty qualities and the fractional five qualities are found in still greater proportions in Sambhu.

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