🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 76 🌹
🌴 Indra - 3 🌴
✍️ Master E. Krishnamachar
📖. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 Indra and Vitra 🌻
Indra stands for the cosmic mind. It is his mission to uphold balance in creation by receiving and distributing. If this does not happen, a disturbance occurs.
In the Puranas, there are numerous stories how the Celestial King fought against the diabolic beings so as not to allow these forces to enter into the personality. In these battles, however, Indra is often defeated; he loses his throne and a demon takes over his place.
This happens always when Indra becomes proud, takes his position for granted and neglects his duties. Indra also often acts carelessly and thereby creates problems.
It is said that once Indra had autocratically settled in his power and thus didn’t look for further progress.
Then the divine principle of Saturn took form as the demon Vritra. Vritra is the Angel of Habit; he creates circumscriptions.
Good as well as bad habits can keep us imprisoned. Thus, all people who weren’t in accordance with the awareness of existence were subjugated by Vritra.
Indra also circumscribed himself, because he considered himself the king of all that is. Vritra had realised that he is only THAT and that nothing else exists. Therefore he was invincible.
Vritra was considered by many as very powerful, more powerful than Indra. Indra became jealous and feared that Vritra would contend with him for the throne.
He began to fight against Vritra but he completely lost. Indra now thought that Vritra would come to occupy the throne. But he didn’t do this. Indra could not understand.
He became more and more restless and feared that his subordinates would no longer pay respects to him. He meditated for a long time until the Lord appeared before him and Indra asked him for a weapon with which he could kill Vritra.
He received a weapon and challenged Vritra again to battle. Vritra only smiled at him and asked him to start. Indra used the weapon but it had no influence on Vritra.
Indra was surprised and thought, “He must have a key to immortality.” He now asked Vritra about the secret of his victory. Vritra smiled and replied, “You can never kill me as long as you see an enemy in me. The concept of an enemy in you circumscribes you.
It is for this reason that I always defeat you. In me, there is no such thing as enmity. For me, you are not an enemy but a brother. Therefore, I have smiled at you.
But when I smile at you, this irritates you instead of smiling back. Your own idea which you carry within yourself is your disease. I have no ideas about you in me.”
Indra thought that this teaching is good and asked Vritra to explain it to him further.
Vritra gave him explanations about the eternity of creation and the different projections on the basis of this existence; how people trap themselves and become weak when they go away from the existence, and how you can practice at any time to be in accordance with the existence.
For him everything was existence and all projections only exist on the existence. The childish actions of Indra for him were also a play of the Lord who played through Indra.
When Vritra had explained it to Indra, Indra said, “You are my Master; I have now learnt how we get so easily conditioned through our own thoughts and get caught in projections.” Thus the Celestial King learnt to live in the awareness of existence.
The real intention of Vritra now was over and he said to Indra, “Now you can kill me!” Indra asked why. Vritra replied, “Because you no longer see an enemy in me.” After that the king killed Vritra.
Since Indra had overcome all limitations, there was no longer a purpose for the life of Vritra. Even without form he continues to exist as a principle.
Indra, who now understood the things in a better and deeper way, killed Vritra in friendliness and harmony and thus liberated him from his form.
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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Sri Suktam / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Astrology.
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