But a dualism of opposing forces is found still more unsatisfactory, for the world does not appear to be such a scene of utter warfare and discord as this.

So the mind comes to accept a Triad, in which the unities of life and growth proceed from one element, the antagonisms from a second, and the higher harmonies of reconciled oppositions from a third.

The Brahmanical Triad arose in the same way.[77] Thus grew up, from amid the spiritual pantheism into which all Hindoo religion seemed to have settled, another system, that of the Trimurtti, or Divine Triad; the Indian Trinity of _Brahma, Vischnu_, and _Siva_.

This Triad expresses the unity of Creation, Destruction, and Restoration.

A foundation for this already existed in a Vedic saying, that the highest being exists in three states, that of creation, continuance, and destruction.
Neither of these three supreme deities of Brahmanism held any high rank in the Vedas.