Brahma - The Hindu God Of Creation | Hindu Religion Explained

Brahma is the Hindu creator god known as the later equivalent of Prajapati. He is associated with creation, knowledge and the sacred Vedas. According to some Hindu sources such as the Mahabharata, Brahma is supreme in the triad of great Hindu gods which includes Vishnu and Shiva. Most likely seen wearing a white robe with a sacred cord across his shoulder, Brahma is commonly depicted as a red or golden-complexioned bearded man with four heads facing the cardinal directions. This is to say that we must see that good and evil are intertwined in our universe and we should learn how to separate the two, keeping what is valuable and discarding what is not. The origins of the term Brahma are uncertain, partly because several related words are found in the Vedic literature, such as Brahman for the Ultimate Reality and Brahmaṇa for priest. A distinction between the spiritual concept of Brahman and the deity Brahma is that the former is a genderless abstract metaphysical concept in Hinduism, while the lat