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Thanks, but the link states that Brahman created Brahma, Vishnu and Siva, how is that? Also what is post-vedic development? And who is Brahman, Is it not a type of state and then why is it being given the status of the supreme lord?

As it states:

Brahman gives rise to the primordial being Hiranyagarbha that is equated with the creator God Brahmā. The trimurti can thus be considered a personification of Hiranyagarbha as the active principle behind the phenomena of the universe.

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

“Brahman is the highest and most supreme divinity of the Hindus.

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.

Brahma originated from Brahman, or rather Brahman became Brahma, just as he became Vishnu and Siva.

Brahman is the central theme of almost all the Upanishads.

Brahman is the indescribable, inexhaustible, omniscient,

omnipresent, original, first, eternal and absolute principle who is

without a beginning, without an end , who is hidden in all and who

is the cause, source, material and effect of all creation known,

unknown and yet to happen in the entire universe.

He is not like the other gods either. He is incomprehensible even

to almost all the gods. And He chooses not to be worshipped in the

temples and other places of worship but in one's heart and mind

as the indweller of the material body and master of the senses,

the charioteer. He is too remote and incomprehensible to be

revered and approached with personal supplications although He is

the deepest and the highest vision mankind could ever conceive of

or attain.

Perhaps the exclusion was so evident and seemingly so intentional

that even Lord Brahma, the first among the Trinity and the first

among the created, was also simultaneously excluded from the

ritualistic worship, probably for the similarity in names.”

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swaminarayan is guru, he tought his followers to worship krishna! they didn't listen!

Lord Swaminarayan is not a guru, he is God.

Firstly when Lord Ram came upon earth he believed in Lord Shiva, in the same way when Lord Swaminaryan came upon earth he believd in Lord Krishna.