Brahma, while considered by many to be the first among gods (as he is The Creator) is worshiped remarkably little in Hindu culture. He is The Source of all Knowledge, the Space-Time or Revolving Principle. Other names include Self-Born, Lord-of-Progeny, the Patriarch, the Golden-Embryo and the Eternal-Law. The possibility of a form, of perceptible reality, depends on the existence of a "place" where it can appear and expand, that is, on the existence of an oriented medium (in our world space-time) which is the result of an equilibrium between two opposites, between the centripetal and centrifugal principles. It is a balance between concentration and dispersion, between a tendency towards existence and a tendency towards annihilation, between light and darkness, between Vishnu and Shiva. The source of the manifest world is therefore neither Vishnu nor Shiva, neither concentration nor dispersion, but the result of their opposition, their equilibrium, the third tendency called rajas. Th Immense-Being (Brahma) masculine or personified form og the Immensity (brahman), represents the possibility of existence resulting from the union of opposites. Hence Brahma is the source, the seed of all that is. This tendency manifests itself as a revolving, space creating, and time-creating power. Without the movements that create the appearance of a division in absolute space and time, the substratum of unoriented, boundless Immensity would offer no room for existence. Brahma is the balance of forces from which measurable extension originates. He is the first personal stage of existence. His consort Sarasvati (Knowledge). Note that He is "Source of all Knowledge".

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