text: a real mind bender? if god is almighty, is it possible for him to create a rock he cannot lift? /:) from a hindu perspective : yes  brahman (god) manifested the entire universe from itself and yet also brahman pervades the universe. thus the rock is brahman and so all living beings in the universe. thus, knowing that there are rocks so large the people cannot lift, brahman has thus created itself in the form of rocks that are so large that itself in the form of people cannot lift.  if that makes sense.  the word brahman is derived from two sanskrit words brih and manah. brih means "great" or "expanding" and manah means "consciousness". thus brahman is "great consciousness" or "expanding consciousness"...although is usually translated into english as "cosmic consciousness", "ultimate reality", "universal soul".