Black Asuras and White Devas

In mythology, we find Asuras and Devas fight each-other to show their supreme over others. In Mythology, the stories, gods and goddesses, demons and idols; these all are the symbols to convey the message of the truth to the masses. The stories and symbolism leave the long lasting impression on the mind of the people. That is why; these media to tell the truth become so popular. Those fables and symbols were told more than thousands year ago, and still it is vivid among the masses. We can find these stories in the book of Puranas, the ancient stories. The strife between Asuras and Devas are prominent, and we can find it in almost all the Puranas. Asuras and Devas both are the children of Lord Brahma, the creator. A noteworthy thing is that the Asuras are depicted with black color and Devas with white color. These colors are also a symbolism, it does not mean, the person with black color cannot have the godly quality or divinity, and the person with white color cannot have the demonic quality. The realm of the Asuras is subterranean, and the realm of the Devas is sky. In the subterranean, there is darkness and in the sky, there is light only. Darkness means the lack of light. Light is the symbolism of knowledge and darkness is the dearth of the light, means ignorant. These reflect the colors of Asuras and Devas. The Asuras, do not distinct between what to be done and what not to be done, what is religion and what is irreligion, what is beneficial for the cosmos and what is not, they live in darkness, they are not clear about the real purpose of the life and existence, that is what their color is portrayed with black. Devas lives in the light, they are knowledgeable, they know what to be done and what not to be done, and what is the beneficial for the cosmos and the entire creatures, they are very clear about the real purpose of the life and the existence. The way darkness and light cannot co-exist, the knowledge and ignorant cannot co-exist, one need to sacrifice in the presence of other, in the similar fashion, Asuras and Devas cannot live together, one need to get defeated to make the regime of other. They are of opposite quality, hence strife between Asuras and Devas are portrayed as the symbol of the knowledge and ignorant.

Scientifically, the black color absorbs all the colors and white color reflects back all other colors. In this way, the black color is the color of the attachments and white color is the color of detachments and purity. Asuras means who indulge in only sensual pleasure, and Deva means light, who enlighten others, the person who has these qualities become Devata, who gives. In Veda, at one place, there is description, to get rid of the darkness. At that time, people did not understand the meaning of that, and the white people started fighting with black persons to get rid of them, and in this way, a huge differences and fight took place between white and black people. This took place of the racism, which Veda never allows. This was the cause of the short understanding of the Veda and its teachings. Black and white are the symbolism of the character not the color of the person`s manifestation.