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Indra: the king of the heavenly planets; the king of heaven. He killed the demon V r i t r a.
Indraloka: the planet where Lord I n d r a has his seat.

 


Indra
The king of the Devtaas (Gods). The Lord of rains.
Ishavasyopnishad ...

Indra
chief of the Devaloka (Godly realm); the lord of the senses; the mind or soul Inner yoga-s (see Antaranga Yoga).
Ishvara Pranidhana ...

Indraprastha
After the wedding, the Pandava brothers are invited back to Hastinapura. The Kuru family elders and relatives negotiate and broker a split of the kingdom, with the Pandavas obtaining a new territory.

INDRA - the god of rain, the lord of devas, heavenly beings

INDRYA - agent, sense organs
- KARMA INDRIYAS - five agents of actions: speech, hands, legs, excretion, and generation ...

Indra: Vedic God of being or life.
Ishvara: Ishvara literally means "Lord of the Universe". It is used to refer to a god who is seen as the personalization of the Creator Brahman.

By Indra Devi
Indra Devi gave this rice & squash diet during the Unity in Yoga's Peace Conference in Jerusalem January 1996. Mataji Indra Devi is called the "Mother of Yoga" as she was the first European woman Yoga teacher.

Indra gives comfort to him who, truly presses the soma [i.e., the precious plant yielding the nectar of immortality] for him who longs for it [i.e., Indra]. He, with eager interest, makes a friend of that devotee in his struggles.

indratama angirastama "most-Indra", "most-Angirasa". [Ved.]
indriyas the sense-faculties.
is, isa (Ish, Isha) Lord.

Indra, the king of the gods, and Virochana, a demon prince, went together to their guru Brahma to gain knowledge of the Supreme Self. Both stayed and listened to the same words of the guru.

INDRA: The Lord of gods; the ruler of heaven.
INDRIYAS: Senses.
ISHVARA: Lord; God.

Indra - god of thunder
Ishwara pranidhana - remembrance; one of the five niyamas, or observances, the second of the eight stages of classical Yoga (see also niyamas) ...

Indra is the name given to the creative power of which we have spoken, and which, we are told, resides in "the organ which hangs down like a nipple, inward, in the palate." ...

For the dualist, Indra and Varuna represent separate deities and their function of cosmic and individual lords. This allows the dualist to cleanse and benefit from the mantra as well as the non-dualist.

You might have been angels, you might have been a Gabriel or a Michael, you might have been an Indra or a Brihaspati, you might have been a Gana of Rudra or in Vaikuntha, a Parshada of Lord Visnu; ...

The vajra or thunderbolt is regarded as the weapon of lord Indra, the lord the gods. Similarly this asana may be regarded as the king of all asanas related with the mind, the king of all the senses.

Indra Devata! Please give me power of retention of memory. Oh ! Saraswati the Devi of knowledge, kindly bestow on me mental power. Oh! ...

In Hindu literature this vajra is the scepter of Indra (similar to the thunderbolt of Zeus), with which he as the god of the skies was said to slay evildoers.

Apana which is in the middle, is of the colour of Indragopa (an insect of white or red colour). Samana is of the colour between that of pure milk or crystal or of oily and shining colour, i.e., of something between both Prana and Apana.

Subsequently the knowledge of ancient medicine of Ayurveda is supposed to have been passed on from Lord Brahma to Lord Indra, The king of God. Lateron Ashwinikumar learnt this science from Lord Indra .

I am the Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings. (10.22) ...

A thunderbolt, the weapon of Indra.
Vasistha
A celebrated sage, author of several Vedic hymns.

According to the Upanishads, the powers of the senses are devas since they illuminate the objects of the world and bring them into the realm of experience and awareness. Indra, the god of the devas, is the mind, ...

With such piercing sorrow did this fill his heart that he was unable to feel even any of the celestial felicity enjoyed by Brahma and Indra in their heavens, much less of the earthly joys and delights afforded by a life of worldly greatness.

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