Saturday, 6 April 2013

How does I Ching resemble the Hindu trinity?


I Ching, the Book of Changes, suggests that Nature consists of a creator (yang) and destroyer (yin). The sign above probably illustrates the existence of yang possessing constructive energy and yin possessing destructive energy in a balanced state giving rise to the form of the maintainer (Vishu).

This is a stable but not eventual state whereby there is you in me and me in you in a highly coupled state. The yang and yin are in a perpetual state of conflict and collaboration.

In the creator form, yang overwhelms and yin is suppressed or present in weak form. In the maintainer form, yang becomes a maintainer and is locking horns with yin which has grown and become strong. In the destroyer form, Shiva overwhelms. And if Shiva also recreates, she becomes a transformer.

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