Sri Brahma-samhita

At the Dawn of Creation The origins of the text know as Brahma-samhita are lost in cosmic antiquity. According to Vedic tradition, these "Hymns of Brahma" were recited or sung countless millennia ago by the first created being in the universe, just prior to the act of creation. The text surfaced and entered calculable history early in the sixteenth century, when it was discovered in the manuscript library of an ancient temple in what is now Kerala state in South India. The essential core of the Brahma-samhita consists of a brief description of the enlightenment of Lord Brahma by Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, followed by Brahma's extraordinarily beautiful prayers elucidating the content of his revelation. There is nothing vague about Brahma's description of the Lord and His Abode. No dim, nihilistic nothingness, no blinding bright lights, no wispy, dreamy visions of harps and clouds; rather, a vibrant, luminescent world in transcendental color, form, and sound-a sublimely variegated spiritual landscape populated by innumerable blissful, eternally liberated souls receiving in the spiritual cognition, sensation, and emotion, all in relationship with the all-blissful, all-attractive Personality of Godhead.