NARAYAN

NARAYAN

Narayan is the ultimate god whose local form is vishnu well vishnu also bears the name narayan but that is not related to original narayan in mahabharat there were nara and narayan , arjun as nara and krishna as narayan which may means nara means body and narayan means whose abobe is body may be meaning atman. But vishnu bears a name narayan which means nara means water and ayan means adobe it means that whose adobe is water. Bhramha is said to be born out of its navel and rudra by his warth and he does creation of the universe in the form of bhramha preserves the world in the form of vishnu and sustains in the form of rudra.

VISHNU

Vishnu is said to be the local form of narayan and a aditya the vishnu puran and some other purans say that it is vishnu who is best among adityas. In bhagwat geeta krishna says,"among adityas i am vishnu". It is said vishnu was born as aditi son as a boon given to her by vishnu sometimes identified with vaman.

LAXMI
Laxmi is the wife and shakti of vishnu.
She was gone into the ocean when the rishi durvasa cursed the world that its wealth would be gone. But was taken out while churning of oceans and and was remarried to vishnu.