Indra, god of thunder and rain

 

Indra, god of thunder and rain

 

No one can tell whether there are ghosts and gods in the world. Some people say they believe it, so it exists; some people say they don’t believe it, then it doesn’t; some people say it may or may not exist, then it may or may not exist.

Betty the crow said to Agudemba:

I don’t believe in personified ghosts and gods, but I believe that ghosts and gods do exist. Ghosts and gods are invisible but spiritual. They live in the hearts of all things.

Agudemba did not refute, he did not want to argue about ghosts and gods. Betty the crow said to Agudemba:

Let me now tell you about Indra.

Indra is the head of the gods, but he is also a god of war. He is good at charging into battle and repelling various asuras with his vajra, which is what the devil was called at that time. Later, Indra became the god of war in the Indian nation. This is consistent with There is something really clever about Thor in Norse mythology.

Indra is Sanskrit. Later, due to the translation of ancient Buddhist scriptures, it was translated as Sakyamuni. Indra in Buddhism is translated as God and Emperor. It means the most victorious and supreme. He is the protector of Buddhism, also known as Sakyamuni.

In the oldest Indian mythology period, Indra was called the god of thunder and rain, and was also called the leader of the God of Thunder and the God of Wind. He was the highest-ranking among the gods and was highly worshiped.

Indra's skin is dark brown, yellow and red, and he often holds a Vajra with thunder and lightning in his hand as a weapon. The Vajra was made for Indra by a god of craftsman named Dashita in Vedic mythology. , at the same time, Dashita is also the elder brother of Indra. They were born to the same parents.

Dashta is the god of crafts, but he also keeps the soma juice, a drink considered sacred by various gods. This suma juice is a drink of Indian Brahmanism. Legend has it that it is made from the juice squeezed from the roots of cannabis, ephedra and toadstool. It is also regarded as a drink with the same symptoms as stimulants today. It turns out that Indian gods like to drink stimulants.

When Indra went to chat with his brother Tashita one time, he accidentally discovered that Tashita kept a lot of soma juice. Indra loved drinking soma juice, a stimulant drink, so he began to think of ways to steal a lot of soma juice. This also made Dashta hate his younger brother Indra.

Tuashita had two children, a boy and a girl. The male is called Wanxiang, and the female is called Suo Langyou.

When Wanxiang was born, Tuoshita asked Wanxiang to practice, and he also practiced great asceticism. Just like Shiva, the more ascetic people can endure the more austerities, the more powerful they become.

Wanxiang was born with three heads, so he was also called the three-headed one.

Wanxiang is the son of God born out of Tuashita's increased hatred for Indra, so asking Wanxiang to practice cultivation is of course one of Tuashita's wishful thinking.

When Indra learned about Wanxiang's practice, he was very afraid that after Wanxiang completed the great ascetic practice, he would be selected by the gods to take his place, so Indra killed Wanxiang.

Tashita was furious when he learned that his child had been killed by a thief he hated! He created Vritra and asked Vritra to fight Indra.

In the Vedas, Vritra means snake. In the past, Vritra had three or more heads. The giant snake Naga of the Asura tribe mentioned in early Vedic mythology is the prototype of Vritra in the mythology.

After Vritra was born, he blocked water sources in many parts of the world, causing droughts in the world.

In Buddhism, Indra's most important duty is to protect the Buddha, Dharma and monks. Therefore, Indra took on the mission of conquering Vritra.

Indra told the great god Vishnu: I will take three big steps out of the universe to start a decisive battle with Vritra.

Indra then drank a large amount of soma juice. Indra, who drank this pile of stimulants, was like a reckless man when drunk, and he was naturally able to fight against the great snake Vritra.

But in this battle, Indra was defeated and ended up being swallowed by Vritra.

When the gods heard the news, the gods and Vishnu asked Dashita to return Indra. After all, Indra was also an important god and could not be swallowed up by Vritra.

The gods also asked Drashita to cease Vritra's deity after returning Indra. But before returning it to Indra, Dashta had a condition in exchange for the gods and Vishnu's request, which was to make Indra swear a solemn oath: not to use metal, wood products, stone products, wet or dry, etc. You cannot use weapons to attack Vritra, nor can you attack Vritra during the day or night. After hearing this, the gods agreed to Dashta, and Dashita returned it to Indra.

Although various constraints prevented Indra from defeating Vritra quickly. But Indra is a wise god of war. He thinks about the loopholes in those oaths every day. What are the ways to kill Vritra? After all, Indra wanted to wash away the shame of being swallowed by Vritra.

One day Indra was sitting on the beach thinking, and saw the sun setting. Then I thought of the difference between day and night, that is, when the sun sets in the evening and the sky is not completely filled with darkness. However, regular weapons cannot be used and cannot be condensed into wet or dry water. However, He saw the foam of the sea hitting the rocks, so He used the power of God to transform the foam into a hardness as hard as stone, just like Air bombs are average.

After finding the loophole, Indra collected many foam bombs and waited for the opportunity to kill Vritra in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the time was right and the foam bombs were as numerous as a ship's cannonballs, Indra shot Vritra to death with tens of thousands of foam bombs at midnight one day.

Indra destroyed about 99 of Vritra's fortresses, and Vritra also had the jaws of two heads knocked off by Indra. When Vritra's last head was about to eat Indra, But Indra grabbed Vritra by the neck and threw his head out. Vritra's head hit the rubble of his fortress and died.

Later, when the weather was about to rain heavily, people heard the roar of thunder clouds and thought that it was Indra and Vritra who were fighting.

In the early days, the glaciers in the Himalayas had not yet broken and melted. Due to global warming, the ice on the glaciers began to break and melt, causing the alluvial plains below the mountains to flood. Residents regarded this situation as the result of Indra's breaking of the ice. The river, and the way the river flows from the mountain to the bottom is like the wriggling way of a snake, is alluded to the appearance of Vritra.

Crow Betty smiled and said to Agudumba: The story of Indra fighting the serpent Vritra is familiar to all of us. But what answer can you give, who is right in a mythical story like this? Who is wrong? Who should be praised and who should be cursed?

Agudengba said: Myths can be made up.

Crow Betty smiled: Can faith also be made up? Of those so-called beliefs, which one is not derived from mythology?

 

Crow Betty sang a Gita:

 

By God’s mercy,

us

It’s the end of the year again.

From the perspective of the real world of life,

Every time the year ends and the beginning of the year connects,

All one kind

The connection between suffering and suffering,

The connection between chaos and chaos,

The connection between sadness and sorrow,

The connection between despair and despair.

The war will not stop,

Peace is hard to come by.

 

Prayers to God,

us

Create a new mental path.

Thinking from the bottom of our hearts,

Stay away from ignorance and find awareness,

That's a

From suffering to peace,

From chaos to order,

From sorrow to comfort,

From despair to hope.

Only by liberating yourself,

Only then can one understand life.

 

The oath made to God,

     Awakening

We can see this way of thinking.

Because we have opened our eyes,

No longer confused and ignorant,

That's a

From oppression to resistance,

From anesthesia to awakening,

From helplessness to transcendence,

From darkness into light.

Stay away from gods and demons,

The soul can be reborn.