
3. Mundaka Upanishad | Mantras 1.1.5 - 6 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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The Destroyer of Indra
A great Vedic sage had his reasons for taking revenge on Indra. Vishnu arranged that when the mantras were being chanted, Saraswati would go on the tongue of the sage who was chanting the mantras and make him mispronounce the mantras. The effect would not be quite what he thought it would be. He didn't notice it. And so, the great demon was born, Vritra Sura. We have read these stories as kids in India. So, we had a comic book of how terrifying he was. Then he went around fighting the demons, won all the battles and defeated the gods. But then they said to him: "We want your bones
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