5/28/2023 0 Comments The war of the gods and demons![]() It alone allows you to perceive and perform actions. Indra is not up there in heaven somewhere he is your mind. It could mean either jnana indriya, the organs of sense - eyes, nose, ears, tongue, skin - or karma indriya, organs of action - limbs, mouth, genitalia, rectum. Going back to the puranic legends, Indra is the king of the gods, and the Sanskrit word indrimeans an organ. At times they are able to overcome their anger and other negative emotions, and sometimes such emotions overpower them. Sometimes, their positive side overpowers the negative one, and at other times it is vice-versa. Similarly, in most people’s inner universe, a constant battle goes on between positives and negatives, rights and wrongs, between good and bad. The demons may win some battles, even if temporarily, but the war is ultimately won by the gods. Gods represent truth, and demons represent falsehood the former signify compassion, goodness, and the latter indicate everything opposite of that. Gods and demons represent the elements of your inner world the gods are positive emotions and the demons are negative emotions. A wise question would be, do they exist? Why do they become more powerful in the night? Why do they feed on the opposite of goodness? Have you ever seen a demon as religious texts sketch them? In broad daylight? Allow me to shed some light on this. The demon may be called shaitana in Islam, Satan in Abrahamic religions, daitya in Hindusim, or by any other name elsewhere. Various Buddhist schools acknowledge the concept of wrathful deities like Yidam and protector deities like Tara. Even Buddhism, the quintessential path of meditation, where Buddha tried to explain everything as a manifestation of the mind, is not without the concept of Mara, the demon. Most religions entertain the notion of gods and demons. ![]() In unmistakable terms, they also shed light on the secrets of the inner world – body, mind, soul, and cosmos, they are full of stories of devotion and resolve, of fervor and faith, of good and bad. ![]() ![]() The Puranas - the ancient books of Sanatana Dharma, the Hindu religion - are replete with legends of devasur sangrama, battles between the gods and the demons. ![]()
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