Parables of Rama
by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words
Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...
Story 172 - Fight between gods & demons
PART 2
Once there was a fight between the gods and the demons. The gods were lesser in strength than the demons.
Vrihashpati, the Lord of gods, preached to the demons the philosophy of 'charvak', the principles of which are to eat, drink and be merry and not to care for anything that is metaphysical. As the story goes, gods won the war. Why? Because gods had faith in their good cause and in God.