Vishnu, Brahma, Shiva - the Trinities

Trinity - the Great Division

Let us demarcate our earth into three parts namely, the East, the Middle and the West.  East comprising all those areas that are beyond say Japan  - ie. from say Alaska/Canada upto Europe towards the right-side of the World map;  West comprising the Arab world to the right of Europe and upto and perhaps including Pakistan; and the Middle comprising India to Japan.

The East is where the light is created, the Middle is where it reaches Zenith and the West is where it destroys itself. 

Let us also regard that the Middle belongs to Brahma, East belongs to Vishnu, and West belongs to Shiva.  

Vishnu

Vishnu of the Trinities (Brahma - the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer and Shiva the Annihilator) is the Lord of the East.  Lakshmi Devi (prosperity) flatters Vishnu, though Vishnu is not so much bothered about her affection, service or love.  Vishnu is on top of eternity and is in sleeping posture unless awakened by the need of any hour when He actually is called to descend down (incarnates) inorder to prevail upon any egoistic culture that tries to scuttle the order of Dharma for he is Omniscient as well as powerful and establisher of Dharma / Order.  He is however postured as self contained, in Yoga-nidra (Sleep that is in a state of awareness though unattached and at the same time, bound to the world - his other wife - Bhoomi Devi).

His followers are better known as Gods / Suras / Devas.  He is also in control of the Aakaasha Ganga (Milky way) and has a purview of the entire world from the skies and space. 

The Suras have good understanding between them and always stand united even if it be at the cost of any of their smallest fellow allies.

Shiva

Shiva lives in the coldest of Regions known as Kailaasa near crematorium near the dead and therefore is considered to be the Annihilator.  He is the lord of the West - the areas governed by the Asuras who worship him not in any form, but only as a symbol.  The equivalent of symbol in Sanskrit is 'Lingam'.  Though Lakshmi Devi (prosperity) is not with Him, He rules Shakti Devi / Parvathi / Nature and therefore is very powerful. He is also known as Lord of Death.

Those who follow him worship him as the lord of Death and therefore, the gurus of this group are more commemorated by their place of death than by their place of birth.  Closely connected to death, the prosperity of Asuras are from the Dead (living and non-living natural elements - fossils, crude oil etc.).  They are found to be more financially powerful and live in echelons of power.  This result in high ego and mostly the Asura rulers end up in losing everything and even face death at the hands of Vishnu who curtails, whenever their Ego touches extremely high levels.

Unfortunately due to their heightened  ego and love for wine and women, and as described in their holy books enshrined by their one-eyed (short-sighted but benevolent) guru Shukra (also means the white / semen in Sanskrit, Venus the lord of Love), who also researched and found the medicine of rejuvenation and restoring one from death, the Asuras always fought not only with the Suras, but also with their fellow Asuras as well.

The Asuras are also called Daanavas as they are very charitable and are generally more philanthropic even at the cost of their own existence if situation warranted. They stick dogmatically to their religion of charity, and to the words of God as they have rightly or wrongly understood etc.

Brahma

Brahma, the creator, is four headed and therefore sees and looks to all the four sides and is knowledgeable and is more non-aligned to both the Suras or the Asuras and tries to therefore please not only the Suras, but also the Asuras.   It is believed that both the Suras and the Asuras were born of the same father - Kashyapa Prajapati (father of living beings) from two of his 13 wives Aditi (Not bright - Dark) and Diti (Bright) respectively who are granddaughters of Brahma (father of Daksha-Prajapati). Thus from Aditi (darkness) were born Sura (Day / Light) and from Diti (Brightness) were born Asura (Night / Darkness). 

Those who followed Brahma were the Brahmanas which later got divided during the course of time into Kshatriyas, Vysyas and Shudras for occupational reasons & their psychological temperaments. (There is a place east of Himalayas called Burma which is known as the land of Brahma).

Offerings are usually made only to the Suras and not to the Asuras because the Asuras are considered to be of upholding lesser moral values - though not necessarily so - except that the Asuras were always demanding and used force for their success whereas the Suras mostly used coercive techniques in peaceful manner for converting the Brahmanas to their fold.

No wonder some of the best Kshatriyas sided with the Suras during fights with Asuras though, the Brahmanas / Manushyas are considered to be neutral and non-aligned. Some of the examples are Dasharatha (father of Sri-Rama) of the Ramayana and Arjuna of the Mahabharata who participated in wars siding the Suras against Asuras.

 However, the Asuras were great Daanavaas (liberal donators) and therefore, the Manushyas hold some of them in good regard.

Psycho-Analysis

If we analyze thus the different great religions of the world in the light of the above, certain religions could be classified belonging or showing adherence to the principles referred above.  For example, due to their benevolence, the East could be classified under Vaishnavaite, the Middle as Brahmanaite and the West as Shaivaite. In this light, the Middle has a concept of God as Impersonal (as in Advaita Philosophy) while the East and the West have a more Personal God.  Where the God is more personal, He has established rules and dogmas for his followers.  In case of the Middle, the laws of nature & rational thought are more prevalent.  The basic mentality of the East is to Create / Conceptualize; that of the Middle is to Preserve / Maintain and that of the West is to Consume / Annihilate.

Conceptualization, Discovery and creation is done in the East; while innovation and betterment of the same is of the Middle and Consumption, Burial, Destruction etc are of the West.