I am VIshnu the creator and the destroyer of all existences and the master of the past, present, and future. I am a four armed, dark blue god, holding a lotus and a mace. I am also described in the Bhagavad gita as having  a universal form, which is beyond the  ordinary limits of humans sense perception.

    In the trimurti, I am responsible  for the maintenance or preservation  of the universe with the other roles of creation and destruction being under the care of brahma and shiva respectively. in the rigveda i  i am mentioned 93 times. i am frequently invoked alongside other deities  especially indra whom i assist  in killing  vitra and whom he drinks soma.

    MY distinguishing charateristic in the vedas is my associatin with light or even my identifacation with the sun.