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11. TRIMURTHY
Unlike the Christian Trinity, which always acts in unison, in love and as a divine family, the epic period found the Indian interpretation of Trinity in constant competition and fight; each person in the trinity fighting for supremacy. We will see some of these examples.
The coming of Gnostic heresy from Syria in the third century produced a dialectical development and relation within the Trinity. The creation, maintenance and recreation became an on going process with each person in trinity did their part to keep the cycle going. Evolution they said followed the Hegelian - Engelian process, thesis, antithesis, synthesis. The three persons in the Trinity found themselves separated and fighting between themselves for primacy. What one proposes the other contradicts and that led to destructions of the system.
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