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Minunea prin care Sfântul Gavriil Georgianul a demonstrat unitatea Sfântei Treimi "În același fel, Sfânta Treime este împărțită în trei Persoane: Tatăl, Fiul și Duhul Sfânt" 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/msoe4 👈 #Creștinii #CuviosulGavriilUrgebadze #doctrinaluiBrahma #hindușii #ortodocșii #SemnulCrucii #SfântaTreime #SfântulIerarhSpiridon #SfinteiTreimi #Shiva #Treimea #Vishnu
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The last Hindu temple built in the greatest Buddhist kings’ capital

That time a hidden temple revealed itself in green season livery. A misty morning at East Top Temple, Angkor Thom.
Prasat Top Khang Kaeut (Eastern Prasat Top), ប្រាសាទតុប ខាងកើត or Mangalartha temple is a small Hindu temple with several images of the God Vishnu. The temple is mostly unvisited and very peaceful.

Green temple
The vegetation has taken over most of the surroundings. That makes for some stunning photo opportunities. During or just after green season this gets extraordinary, with deep, green moss and fresh green all around this temple.

Top Khang Kaeut was built during the reign of Jayavarman VII, the great Buddhist god king, and was initiated in 1295CE. It was built in honour of Mangalartha, a son of a Hindu Brahmin priest/guru kept in high regard by the god king. That gives a glimpse into the religious tolerance and structures in the Khmer Empire.

Small temple, large importance
This is the last significant Hindu Temple built in the Khmer Empire before the major change to Buddhism as State religion. It was built during the era of the most powerful of the Buddhist kings of Angkor. It is the last temple built in the high Angkor time frame with a definitive known initiating date.

The “Hidden Temple”-name is because anyone who wants to explore this small temple and site needs to actively go looking for it. It is not on any of the ordinary visiting trips in Angkor Park. If not biking, the visitor needs to walk some hundred meters into the thick forest. Tuk Tuks or cars cannot drive there.

It is a nice 12 km ride from central Siem Reap.

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Trimurti

This is the triple deity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, in which the cosmic functions of creation, preservation, & destruction are personified as a triad of deities. Usually, they’re Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, & Shiva the destroyer. The word “trimurti” means “3 forms.”

The Om symbol of Hinduism is considered to have an allusion or the Trimurti, where the A, the U, & the M phonemes of the word are considered to indicate creation, preservation, & destruction. Adding up to represent Brahman.

There’s a difference between Brahman (with an ‘n’), which refers to Ultimate Reality & Brahma (without the ‘n’), which refers to the creator god.

According to the Shaiva Agama, Shavities believe that Shiva performs 5 actions: creation, preservation, dissolution, grace, & illusion. The first 3 actions are associated with Shiva as Sadyojata (akin to Brahma), Vamadeva (akin to Vishnu), & Aghora (akin to Rudra).

Braham, Vishnu, & Rudra aren’t deities different from Shiva. But rather forms of Shiva. As Brahma/Sadyojata, Shiva creates. As Vishnu/Vamadeva, Shiva preserves. As Rudra/Aghora, Shiva dissolves. Shiva is the supreme god & performs all actions, destruction is only but 1. Ergo, the Trimurti is a form of Shiva himself for Shaivas.

Shaivites believe that Shiva is the supreme. Shiva assumes various critical roles & assumes appropriate names & forms, also stands transcending all these.

Despite the fact that the Vishnu Parana describes that Vishnu manifest as Brahma in order to create & as Rudra (Shiva) in order to destroy.

Vaishnavism generally doesn’t acknowledge the Trimurti concept. Instead, they believe in the avatars of Vishnu like Narashimha, Rama, Krishna, etc.

Also they believe that Shiva & Brahma are both forms of Vishnu. The Dvaita school, for example, holds Vishnu alone to be the supreme god. Shiva is the subordinate & interprets the Puranas differently.

Vijayindra Tirtha, a Dvaita scholar, interprets the 18 Puranas differently. He interprets the Vaishnavite puranas as satvic & Shaivite Puranas as tumasic. Only the satvic Puranas are considered authoritative.

Satvic is 1 of the 3 gunas (modes of existence). This is the quality of goodness, purity, positivity, truth, serenity, balance, peacefulness, & virtuousness. Tamasic is another of the 3 gunas. This is the quality of inertia, inactivity, dullness, or lethargy.

Sri Vaishnavism tradition, in the south, holds that all major deities that are hailed in the puranas are in fact forms of Vishnu & that the Scriptures are dedicated to him alone.

The female-centric denomination of Shaktidharma puts the dominant roles of the 3 forms (Trimurti) of the Supreme Divinity not to the male gods. But to the female goddesses: Mahasarasvati (Creatrix), Mahalaxmi (Preservatrix), & Mahakali (Destructrix).

This girl version of the Trimurti is called Tridevi (“3 goddesses”). The boy gods (Brahma, Vishnu, & Shiva) are then relegated as auxiliary agents of the supreme feminine Tridevi.

Smartism is a denomination of Hinduism that places emphasis on a group of 5 deities rather than just a single 1. The “worship of the 5 forms” (pancayatana puja) system, which was made popular by the 9th century philosopher, Sankaracarya among Orthodox Brahmins of the Smarta tradition, invokes the 5 deities: Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Shakti, & Surya. Sankaracarya later added Kartikeya to these 5, making 6 in total.

This reformed system was promoted by Sankaracarya primarily to unite the principal deities of the 6 major sects on an equal status. The monistic philosophy preached by Sankaracarya made it possible to choose 1 of these as a preferred principal deity & as these same time worship the other 4 deities as different forms of the same all-pervading Brahman.

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