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of Brahma which sometimes elevates and depletes at other times. Vyāhstis are Brahma. Bhuḥ, Bhuvaḥ, and Svaḥ are Vyāhrtis. Bhuḥ means Earth or Land. Bhuyaḥ means Ether or Atmosphere. Svaḥ means Water, Heaven or Heaven of Indra?. Land and Water are physical objects. Heaven of Indra means the earthly pleasures and joys in an unlimited quantity. Thus, Brahma is a physical or material institution and not the spiritual one.
Agni is Brahma. Yajña is Brahma. Brick (used in Yajñic ceremony) is also Brahma". Brahma is not selfcreated, self-existent ; it has been created. Brahmaņaspati is the Adhipati of Brahma. Brahma is Deva-made and Brahmanaspati-made". This clearly indicates that it was the social organisation that was created or brought into existence by the fusion of all the Gaņas into one society by the leaders and the Ganapatis. No Scholar, Eastern or Western, Vedic or Non-Vedic, ancient or modern, believes that Brahma, the Highest Principle or the Ultimate Truth, was or is Deva-made or Brahmaṇaspati-made.
Though Brahma and Kşatra came into existence out of the unitary Brahma, ; they remained identified and united for a long time in the post-vedic age. Brahma quickens Kșatra and Kșatra quickens Brahma. Indra and Agni were created as the Brahma and the Kșatra. The Brahma was Agni and Kşatra Indra. When created, the two were separate. They spake, 'whilst, being thus, we shall be unable to produce creatures (peoples), let us both become one form'. The two became one form?4. One form of the two is Brahma. The purpose for becoming one was to 'produce peoples,' used in the figurative sense. It means that while separate, they would not be able to win wars and hence would not be able to subjugate people to their subordination. It is only as one
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