The religious teachings of the Indians are a system of emanation. The Latin word emanatio means an expiration, in the sense of separation of the finest particles, or in a purely ideal, figurative sense. According to the Indians, the entire visible and invisible world flows out of a deity and returns to its source. The centerpiece of their religion is the doctrine of the resettlement of souls (metempsychosis). According to this doctrine, a human soul is given an earthly body only as a punishment deserved by its former existence, which preceded its birth in this body, and the purpose of its aspirations should be to unite with the divine soul of the world. Therefore, the Indian considers earthly life to be a period of punishment and trial, which can be shortened only by distance from sin, prayer and sacrifice, repentance and purification, or ascetic life, which finds joy in contemplation of the deity and protects the human being from infectious contact with the corrupted world. If a person neglects this self-purification and, moving away from the deity, sinking deeper into evil, then when his soul takes off "its worn carnal clothes", it goes, by the sentence of the appointed judges over the dead, to another, It is not uncommon for the inferior body to begin its journey again as the soul of the wise, heroic or repentant ascends to the shining stars and finally connects with the spiritual original essence from which it once came out.
Brahma and Brahmanism
In ancient times, when the Indians were still living in the country of the Pentateur, they worshiped the forces that created nature: the Vedic deities - Indra, the god of heaven, the lord of sunlight and rain, morning dawn and winds, Agni, the power of fire and light, and Varuna, the ruler of the infinite space and sea surface. Next to these creatures, embodying the external nature, to which the Indians made a special kind of sacrifice - somajaga - and who represented the life of nature in its triple manifestation: the emergence, continuation and fading of the Indians, and then already called, under the name of Brahma, another mysterious deity (see, for example, the name of Brahma, "The life of nature"). Brahma's God), which was considered to be a spirit inherent in sacrifice and prayer, having power over the forces of nature and prompting them to listen to human prayer. Later, when the Indians indulged in a quiet and contemplative life in the luxurious country of the Ganges, the creative spiritual activity of the Brahmans gave this notion of Brahma the first place in the Indian religion - brahmanism. Brahma was recognized as the soul of the world and the original source of all existence, and Indra and other deities, embodying nature, received secondary importance as guardians of the world.
Brahman (the middle class in Brahm's Nominative Case) literally means: the great, from here - mostly the great, the supreme being, from which everything has its origins and in which everything returns. It is an eternity of complete unity of the world and all beings, which, as a pure unity, can neither be embodied nor marked by human concepts. From this abstract unity, which is the essence of everything, came a second, concrete being, a true reflection of the being of the original, denoted by the male lineage of Brahman (in the Nominative Brahman). It is the original mind that created the real world and the human race. He gave people the sacred books: the Vedas, the laws of Manu, etc. Only this Brahma of the masculine kind is given an external worship, and not an abstract original creature, which, as a pure unity, can not be the subject of human representation.
Trimurti: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
The emergence of the founder of a new religion in ancient India, Buddha, in the person of whom the disciples worshipped the divine model of human virtue and perfection on earth, led the Indians to the doctrine of incarnations, according to which the original spirit of Brahma, the ideal unity of the universe, first appeared on the earth in three images (trimurti): Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, and then Vishnu was embodied at times in the human image (in the form of Rama, Krishna, etc.).) in order to clean up the world, immersed in vice and delusions, and to restore the power of eternal truth and holy custom.
The three highest Indian deities, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, are given in a known relationship only by the later thinkers. Originally, they were the three main deities worshipped by different tribes in different parts of India as supreme gods. Even in later times, some sects recognized one of them above the others.
Vishnu God
Cherry is also a personal revelation of the same original Indian spirit; this word means either a penetrating one (from the root of the Vis) or a protector, a keeper (from the root of the Vi and the particle of the Sleep, which by reason of the vowel goes into the Sleep). He is a keeper, a redeemer, an eternal restoration of moral order in the world, for the benefit of people is made by man himself and fights evil. In his admirers, the god Vishnu was also considered a creator, keeper and redeemer, i.e. destroying
