Both Srihari and Shiva proclaim the Trimurti Abheda - in Srimad Bhagavatam

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Both Srihari and Shiva agree to the Trimurti Abheda - in Srimad Bhagavatam

In the Bhagavatam, Mahavishnu addressed everyone after the Daksha yajna episode:

श्रीमद्भागवतपुराणम्/स्कन्धः ४/अध्यायः ७

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श्रीभगवानुवाच -

अहं ब्रह्मा च शर्वश्च जगतः कारणं परम् ।

आत्मेश्वर उपद्रष्टा स्वयं दृगविशेषणः ॥ ५० ॥

आत्ममायां समाविश्य सोऽहं गुणमयीं द्विज ।

सृजन् रक्षन् हरन् विश्वं दध्रे संज्ञां क्रियोचिताम् ॥ ५१ ॥

तस्मिन् ब्रह्मण्यद्वितीये केवले परमात्मनि ।

ब्रह्मरुद्रौ च भूतानि भेदेनाज्ञोऽनुपश्यति ॥ ५२ ॥

यथा पुमान्न स्वाङ्‌गेषु शिरःपाण्यादिषु क्वचित् ।

पारक्यबुद्धिं कुरुते एवं भूतेषु मत्परः ॥ ५३ ॥

त्रयाणां एकभावानां यो न पश्यति वै भिदाम् ।

सर्वभूतात्मनां ब्रह्मन् स शान्तिं अधिगच्छति ॥ ५४ ॥

I who am the cause of the world, Atma, Sakshi, Upadrashta, self-seeing self-luminous, self-luminous, I am Brahmaa and Sharva too.

Keeping my maya in view I myself, with the help of guNas, create, sustain and destroy, and bear the names of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. (So these trinity are not different persons, but different forms/names of the same person, just like Rama, Krishna, Narasimha, etc. are forms of one Vishnu)

An ignorant person will know/see Brahma, Rudra and others as different in this Nondual one Supreme Being.

He who sees no difference in the Trimurtis, which is the soul of all things of one form, will be at peace.

Srihari's words that the three murtis are non- different fundamentally is what Paramashiva too said when he gave darshan to Muni Markandeya:

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सलोका लोकपालास्तान् वन्दन्त्यर्चन्त्युपासते ।

अहं च भगवान् ब्रह्मा स्वयं च हरिरीश्वरः ॥ २१ ॥

न ते मय्यच्युतेऽजे च भिदामण्वपि चक्षते ।

नात्मनश्च जनस्यापि तद् युष्मान् वयमीमहि ॥ २२ ॥

ब्राह्मणेभ्यो नमस्यामो येऽस्मद् रूपं त्रयीमयम् ।

बिभ्रत्यात्मसमाधान तपःस्वाध्यायसंयमैः ॥ २४ ॥

We are the Trinity. There is not a wee bit of difference among the Three of us. We, the Trimurtis, worship the devotees who see all three of us with this abheda buddhi, vision of non-difference.

Thus, it is very significant that Vedavyasa in the Srimad Bhagavatam, in two different occasions, mentions the non-different nature of the Trimurtis through the words of verily Hari and Hara.

Vedantists alone do not consider these parts of the Bhagavata as tamasic. The is because these are words in accordance with the Vedas. In the Vedas there is no category of 'Tamasic Vedic parts'. In Puranas this categorization can be accepted only if there is a category called Tamasa Veda.

Om

A rare sculpture of The Trimurti ~ Brahma, Vishnu & Mahesh.

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Date : 8th–9th century.

Culture : India (Jammu & Kashmir).

Medium : Stone.

Dimensions : H. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm).

Currently in The MET Museum.