In plain words
Brahmā creates the whole of the cosmos; Viṣṇu makes all of it grow and flourish; Paramaśiva destroys the sinful beings: this word tells the plain truth.
Embodiments of Prema!
In this vast world, amid endless sense objects, in fathomless worries, what are discontented people searching for? For what is their tapas? Some waste time on worldly worries, and others on worries over what cannot be reached. On the spiritual path many keep thinking that they must see God, must remember God, must converse with God. People think of God as the forms of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara. But these, Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara, are not human beings with form. They have no forms and no supports. Nor is there any joy to be had from such a notion. Then, if we inquire in what form these three exist, they exist as forms of qualities, with no upādhis. What are these forms? ‘Īśvarassarva bhūtānāṃ’, it has been said. Īśvara dwells in all beings. But in what form does He dwell? What use is it to think of a shape whose form we do not know? The Īśvara principle is nothing but the divine breath, plainly seen and heard in human beings, the breath that makes them lose themselves. How does the sound of this breath become perceptible to us? What must we do to experience this very sound as a form? In the Upaniṣads such questions find their answer. This very thing the Upaniṣads have described as Brahman or the Ātma. But however many such formless words are spoken, man does not understand them.