Brahma Samhita about Siva Lingam

The Brahma Samhita is a sanskrit text made up of verses recited by Lord Brahma, the creator of the material world, who was worshipping Sri Govinda, the source of all the creation.

These texts also describe Lord Siva and his creator power.




Text 8
niyatih sa rama devi tat-priya tad-vasam tada tal-lingam bhagavan sambhur jyoti-rupah sanatanah ya yonih sapara saktih kamo bijam mahad dhareh

[The secondary process of association with Maya is described.] Ramadevi, the spiritual [cit] potency, beloved consort of the Supreme Lord, is the regulatrix of all entities. The divine plenary portion of Krsna creates the mundane world. At creation there appears a divine halo of the nature of His own subjective portion [svamsa]. This halo is divine Sambhu, the masculine symbol or manifested emblem of the Supreme Lord. This halo is the dim twilight reflection of the supreme eternal effulgence. This masculine symbol is the subjective portion of divinity who functions as progenitor of the mundane world, subject to the supreme regulatrix [niyati]. The conceiving potency in regard to mundane creation makes her appearance out of the supreme regulatrix. She is Maya, the limited, nonabsolute [apara] potency, the symbol of mundane feminine productivity. The intercourse of these two brings forth the faculty of perverted cognition, the reflection of the seed of the procreative desire of the Supreme Lord.


Text 9
linga-yony-atmika jata ima mahesvari-prajah

All offspring of the consort of the great lord [Mahesvara] of this mundane world are of the nature of the embodiment of the mundane masculine and feminine generative organs.


Text 10
saktiman purusah so 'yam linga-rupi mahesvarah tasminn avirabhul linge maha-visnur jagat-patih

The person embodying the material causal principle, viz., the great lord of this mundane world [Mahesvara] Samhhu, in the form of the male generating organ, is joined to his female consort the limited energy [Maya] as the efficient causal principle. The Lord of the world Maha-Visnu is manifest in him by His subjective portion in the form of His glance.


Text 15
vamangad asrjad visnum daksinangat prajapatim jyotir-linga-mayam sambhum kurca-desad avasrjat

The same Maha-Visnu created Visnu from His left limb, Brahma, the first
progenitor of beings, from His right limb and, from the space between His two eyebrows, Sambhu, the divine masculine manifested halo.