Well said, haddocker. You are correct that the various Hindu deities are simply aspects of the one Divine....which is not a human-like entity at all, but a principle which encompasses all of reality as we know it, and then some. In order that the common people could relate to that principle, it was clothed, so to speak, or translated into the various gods and goddesses, each of which was one of its attributes...like the facets on a diamond. This, people decided to do, in order that they could relate to what was in itself so large that it was completely incomprehensible.

It is itself indefinable, indescribable, and infinite. The infinite is everywhere, and everything is a part of it.

It is NOT the "God" that Guest, Ed is objecting to! ;-)