Asura

Devayani - A divine demonic love story Devayani is the only daughter of the Asura Guru Shukracharya and her father dotes on the motherless child. A spirited and sprightly girl, Devayani thinks that she is the most beautiful girl in the Asura kingdom. At eighteen, she is not short of suitors in her country. Asura civilization is at its peak and her father, Guru Shukracharya is the most important man in her country. He has discovered the secret to immortality with his tapasya and King Vruvpaksha

caring brother. Ravana ceaselessly fights for the much deserved freedom and glory for the Asura race and his motherland. He overthrows the yoke of Deva ruling and carves out a big part of land from under the reign of the Deva, he leads the Asuras to a better future. Ravana looks upon the great God Indra with contempt. Through Ravana's eyes, one can see Indra as “ruthless and savage”. Indra laid waste to Asura towns and set fire to beautiful villages. He captured cities, butchered all living things

the dark side of religion, that being Hinduism involves Asuras, and Christianity involved with Satin. While many Hindus think that the Asuras are associated with darkness, and at times are known to cooperate with gods, unlike Christians who see satin as the darkness of the world would never cooperate with God. To support that the Asuras cooperate with the gods, I will use the reading The Churning of the Ocean, which describes how the Asuras are cooperating with the gods even though they’re filled

demons are brought into the most common legends. (Williams 1) In Hindu mythology there has been a constant battle between good and evil almost since the dawn of time. The Devas (gods) representing the powers of good against the powers of evil the asuras demons), the conflict between good and the evil power of destruction, starvation, and death. (Doniger 58 ) The word deva comes from the word light and can be roughly translated to mean “one who shines forth”. In Sanskrit deva referred to the gods

JANAVASABHA SUTTA (DN 18) The Buddha is staying at the Brick House in Nadika, where he also stayed in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. You will recall that the Buddha foretold the rebirths of many people in that community. This sutta elaborates that story, as the previous sutta elaborated Ananda’s objection to the Buddha dying near Kusinara. As Walshe points out in a footnote, the Magadhans were not mentioned initially. Ananda points this out as a defect, since many Maghadans were Buddhist, including

with the demons to jointly churn the ocean for the Amrita (nectar of immortality). The demigods promised to share the nectar with the Asuras.. But The demigods agreed to join with Asuras only because Lord Vishnu told them that He would make sure they alone would obtain the nectar and recover their strength and power to defeat the demons. Both the demigods and Asuras proceeded to churn the ocean of milk with the help of the mandara mountain as the rod and the king of serpents vasuki as the cord to

When the gods were pondering how to win the amrita, the elixir of immortally, Vishnu suggested that they let the Devas and Asuras churn the ocean so that the elixir, along with all the herms and jewels, would emerge. They unrooted Mount Mandara and set it on the back of a tortoise and used Vasuki, the snake, as the rope. Taking each side of the rope, the Asuras and Devas began twirling Mount Madara. The friction of the churning caused fire, which Indra put out using water from his clouds. Finally

hell, animal, human life, asura and hungry ghost. Heaven is the highest realm one can achieve, in Buddhism, there are 37 levels of heaven where beings experience peace and lasting happiness without suffering. The Human life is the second highest realm one can enter. In buddhism, humans can be reborn into human life repetitively being attractive or unattractive, wealthy or poor, every state is a result of the Karma a person has brought with them from previous experiences. Asura is a spiritual state of

the Gods trying to acquired the Amrita or the elixir of immortality. The Churning of the ocean begins with the Gods reunion at the Mount Meru to suggested best to obtain the Amrita. One of the most well-know gods Vishu proposed to let the Devas and Asuras stir the ocean with the snake Vasuki been used as a rope around Mount Mandara. At the

In the Roman pantheon, Janus is the two-faced god of beginnings, limits, doors, gateways, and departure. Unlike the other Greco-Roman deities, Janus was not imported from Greece to Rome. How he arrived in the Roman pantheon is unclear: some scholars believe that he was originally a gatekeeping deity of the near East while others argue he was an original Latin deity who was worshipped in Italy before Rome rose to power. Similarly there are different myths concerning his origin. The most dramatic