What I See Here Is A Lot Of Confusion. Stop Dogmatically Using Academic Crutches! If You Really Have Something Inside Besides A Bunch Of Clever Thoughts And Ideas, There Should Be No Problems Here At All! It Should Never Be A Question Of Vishnu Or Siva! First: Academically, Vishnu Should Not Be Confused With Mahavishnu! Second: Siva Is Not Siva Here. The Story Stuff Related To Siva, In Reality, Is A Customary Way Of Dealing With Rudra. Trimurti, That Is To Say, Is Brahmaa, Vishnu And Rudra. First Of All, Preliminary For The Harikrishnas In The Audience: Get Real! The Simple Definition Of Brahman Is Simply That Beyond Which Nothing Can Exist, By Definition! Brahman Is "god" Beyond The Context Of The Possibility Of The Existence Of A Creation. Siva Is Brahman Within The Context Of The Possibility Of The Existence Of A Creation - But There Still Is No Creation. That Is Why His "consort" Is Uma Here. Ishwara Is Brahman Within Context Of The Existence Of A Creation, Although Totally Transcendental With Respect To That Creation, Of Course. His "consort" Is Merely The Feminine Form Of "himself": Ishwari. Durga Means "the Inaccessible" For Good Reasons! She Is The Inaccessible Made Accessible. It Makes Sense When One Understands The True Nature Of Creation Itself. That Cannot Be Gone Into At This Moment, Though Essentially It Is Very Simple. Durga Is A Manifestation Of Ishwari Within The Creation. And Ishwari, Beyond Habits Of Custom, Is - As Brahman - Neither Saiva Nor Vaishnava. She Is Brahman! It Can´t Happen? Of Course It Can´t! But, When You Come Right Down To It, In Terms Of Our Normal Human Possibilities, The Creation Can´t Happen Either! The Thing Is That, As I Said, The Creation Is Not What People Think It Is. And Don´t Give Me A Bunch Of That Popularized Neo-advaita Crap On This Either! People Have Confused Adi-sankara A Whole Lot! And Ramana Maharishi Also....who Was A Great Saint, But Not Totally Jivan-mukta. And Forget That Very Sincere But Confused, Because Limited Without Posibilities For The Moment, That Guinea Pig, Krishnamurti. He Was Very Sincere, But He Did Untold Damage To Many People!.....besides The Good That He Did Do In Making A Lot Of Them At Least Wake Up A Bit. Agb