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Emerson's "Brahma"

 

            In order to better understand Brahma, we will first look at the different beliefs in the India System.
             There are four major beliefs that have bearing on this poem. .
             Monoism is the belief that reality is a unified whole. Their is a hidden connected ness behind our perception of what appears to be many individual and distinct elements. .
             Pantheism is the belief that reality is an extension of God himself. God's essence is a part of every facet of the universe, meaning all are equal and in a way all are God. .
             Relativism is the belief that what we understand reality to be is an illusion. Reality is subjective-what we see is the interpretation by our eyes and brain of a grandiose existence into its basic parts. .
             Transmigration is otherwise known as reincarnation, over the passing of the soul from a body after death into another form.
             Explain about Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma, the creator, protector and destroyer respectively.
             Brahma is the supreme creator God who willed himself into being in the Hindu religion. Brahma arose from an egg in the eternal chaos, and in turn he creates an egg from which he is born. He is the over soul, the very consciousness of the universe. Inside all people is the Atman, or soul.it is the mirror image of Brahma that all possess.
             Speaker is Brahma. The general subject of the poem deals with the nature of the speaker and the way in which man perceives him. .
             The first stanza deals with the concept of the soul and its return to Brahma. It opens with the paradox of death and life. When the slayer kills he merely kills the body but the essential life essence or soul remains to join the new life of the over soul. The killer liberates and does not destroy. You cannot kill the basic underlying reality, for it binds the whole universe together. When one is slain it is not the end of his life, but a new beginning in the same way. .
             Further Brahma describes this process which humanity can not seem to understand.


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