The following text is what I have had read from a website, but I am confused and do not understand who Brahman is, and how is he the greatest Hindu deity? And how is Brahma the higher than Vishnu and Siva?
Brahman – The absolute God of Hindus <o:p></o:p>
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“Brahman is the highest and most supreme divinity of the Hindus. <o:p></o:p>
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Brahma is the source, the seed and the creator of all beings in this world. He has many other names Hiranyagarbha … followers of Vaishnavism depict him as nabhija or the one who was born from the lotus flower that sprung from the navel of Vishnu. This is however a post-vedic development. <o:p></o:p>
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Brahma originated from Brahman, or rather Brahman became Brahma, just as he became Vishnu and Siva.<o:p></o:p>
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Brahman is the central theme of almost all the Upanishads.<o:p></o:p>
Brahman is the indescribable, inexhaustible, omniscient,<o:p></o:p>
omnipresent, original, first, eternal and absolute principle who is<o:p></o:p>
without a beginning, without an end , who is hidden in all and who<o:p></o:p>
is the cause, source, material and effect of all creation known,<o:p></o:p>
unknown and yet to happen in the entire universe.<o:p></o:p>
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He is not like the other gods either. He is incomprehensible even<o:p></o:p>
to almost all the gods. And He chooses not to be worshipped in the<o:p></o:p>
temples and other places of worship but in one's heart and mind<o:p></o:p>
as the indweller of the material body and master of the senses,<o:p></o:p>
the charioteer. He is too remote and incomprehensible to be<o:p></o:p>
revered and approached with personal supplications although He is<o:p></o:p>
the deepest and the highest vision mankind could ever conceive of<o:p></o:p>
or attain.<o:p></o:p>
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Perhaps the exclusion was so evident and seemingly so intentional<o:p></o:p>
that even Lord Brahma, the first among the Trinity and the first<o:p></o:p>
among the created, was also simultaneously excluded from the<o:p></o:p>
ritualistic worship, probably for the similarity in names.”<o:p></o:p>
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