Ishvara
Ishvara is a Sanskrit term meaning lord or ruler and is used in Hinduism to denote a personal deity or the supreme controller of the universe. The word can refer to a specific god such as Vishnu, Shiva, or Devi, or to a broader sense of a personal, governing principle behind creation, preservation, and dissolution.
In Hindu philosophy, interpretations of Ishvara vary. In Advaita Vedanta, Ishvara denotes the saguna (with form
The term appears throughout the Vedas, Upanishads, and later devotional and philosophical literature as a designation