[Advaita-l] Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva - are the names and forms of Hari

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 04:15:20 EDT 2025


In this verse of this chapter of the Vishnu Puranam, Sage Parashara says
that the creation, sustenance and destruction of the universe is performed
by Hari through his own forms with those respective names:
विष्णुपुराणम्/पञ्चमांशः/अध्यायः ३०https://sa.wikisource.org/s/1ssa

सर्गस्थितिविनाशानां कर्ता कर्तृपतिर्भवान् ।
ब्रह्मविष्णुशिवाख्याभिरात्ममूर्तिभिरीश्वर ॥ ५,३०.१० ॥

Sridhara Swamin says:

ब्रह्मादिसंज्ञाभिः *स्वमूर्त्तिभिः* स्वयमेव सृष्ट्यादीनां कर्त्ता ।  Brahma,
etc. are the names of His own forms.

Elsewhere too the Vishnu Purana has said this. Also the Bhagavatam gives
the same message: the Trimurtis are the very forms of Vishnu. See a
detailed post giving several such references on the Trimurti atyanta abheda
and the Turiya Vishnu and Turiya Shiva concepts here:

 https://groups.google.com/g/advaitin/c/t9kvAvqrVUA

warm regards
subbu


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