The basics of Hindu cosmology and mythology. (This is the third of a series. See earlier ones here and here.) Christians and Jews tend to ask lots of questions about how life began. Hindus tend not to ...
“Sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ, rātriṁ yuga-sahasrāntāṁ te 'ho-rātra-vido janāḥ” – Bhagavad Gita 8.17 (“Those who understand the cosmic day and night know that one day of Brahma lasts ...
In the vastness of Hindu cosmology, Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the force of dissolution and transformation. Together they are the Trimurti, three functions of the same ...