Brahma
Detail of Painting
The Painting's Description
“In the Blink of an Eye” depicts Brahma, the god of wisdom. Brahma symbolizes time. The creator, the grandsire of humans, is shown with four heads. Each is reciting one of the four Vedas. He holds objects representing his power and wisdom; pearls, a silver bowl, a book, and a spoon. Born in water, the lotus is tying him to the navel of the supreme being. A swan flying overhead is his carrier or vehicle. He is shown with his eyes open.
Brahma's Eyes Close To The Philosophers
The Blink
He is usually depicted with his eyes closed. When Brahma’s eyes close, even with a blink, the world is destroyed, and when his eyes open, the world is created. Brahma gives man the key to his destiny. Wisdom keeps his eyes open as new ideas and thoughts are embraced and studied. His eyes close when we shut out new ideas and leave thinking to the “educated philosophers” of science, religion, and government.
How long is a blink? There is no answer. Like a point in Euclidean geometry, “Time has no dimension, no duration, no past, no future, and no speed,” only position. We are always in the present. How long does it take to lose wisdom and destroy the world? How long does it take to gain the wisdom to create one?
Time is arbitrary, calculated between starting and endpoints, by an hour, a day, a year, the blink of an eye, or a billion years. It is all the same. The vertex of the timelines forms a time angle of dis-similarity. Yet with the same starting point as rays in geometry. Time will appear faster or slower on each path. The connection of these timelines that will meet will create a way or passage of time that will either slow or speed the passage of time to cause the separate times to correlate.
How action takes place is a mystery. Our thoughts are in the future or in the past. So how can our thoughts in the present make a movement? It has to be a simultaneous operation and instantaneous. It is key to understanding the soul and its plain of existence.
Momentum
Momentum is not action. it is a constant and always in force and is a facet of movement. In addition, friction is also a facet of momentum. There is no beginning and no end. The universe is a continuum, churning and flowing like a tide. For example, the “Big Bang” we see as the beginning is only one of an infinite number of compressions and expansions. Consequently, this is only part of the endless universe.
Ignorance and Knowledge
Brahman built the universe as a spider spins her web. “When we look within, Brahman is Consciousness-Force. When we look without, Brahman is Self-Manifestation. When we think of Brahman with the mind, earth-bound mind, limited mind, sophisticated mind, unaspiring mind, our life becomes sheer frustration. But when we meditate on Brahman in the heart, our life becomes pure illumination in the silent recesses of the heart”. Brahman is at once the eternal unborn and eternal birth and growth. Brahman is ignorance-night and knowledge-light. Brahman, the ignorance night needs total transformation. Brahman, the knowledge-light needs complete manifestation.
Aum
Momentum is not action; it is a constant, always in force, and a facet of movement. Friction is also a facet of momentum. There is no beginning and no end. The universe is a continuum, churning and flowing like a tide. The “Big Bang” we see as the beginning is only one of infinite compressions and expansions. This part is the endless universe.