By Agastya the wise sage, do we sing of Indra the warrior and the sage combined,
He who is mighty in battle yet also possessed of deep and timeless wisdom,
He who doth wield the thunderbolt with strength absolute and also the knowledge profound.

Agastya speaketh: Indra is not merely a god of war and conquest,
Though his deeds in battle are legendary and his victories are manifold,
For he is also a keeper of the sacred knowledge and the cosmic truths,
A sage among the gods who doth understand the mysteries hidden.

Indra knoweth the secret names, the mantras that do shape all being,
He understandeth the laws that do govern the cosmos in all its workings,
He perceiveth the connections subtle that do link all things together in one web,
And his wisdom is as vast and deep as the ocean infinite.

Yet Indra doth not merely sit in meditation and in contemplation,
But rather doth he use his knowledge to inform his actions in the world,
To strike the blow that is most necessary, to protect what must be protected,
To destroy what must be destroyed, to preserve what must be preserved.

The warrior who is also wise doth know when to fight and when to refrain,
He doth know which battle is worth the fighting and which is not,
He doth conserve his strength for the struggles that matter most,
And he doth achieve his victories with a grace and an economy of effort.

Indra is such a warrior, and such a sage as well,
He doth combine the strength of the tiger with the wisdom of the owl,
He doth possess the courage of the lion and the cunning of the fox,
And he doth use all these qualities to serve the cosmic order.

The sages look to Indra as their model and their inspiration,
For they see in him the ideal of what a being can become,
When strength and wisdom are combined in perfect harmony and balance,
When the warrior's heart and the sage's mind do beat as one.

Agastya declares: We mortals must strive to emulate Indra's example,
Not that we can ever achieve the fullness of his power divine,
But that we can cultivate within ourselves both strength and wisdom,
Both the courage to act and the discernment to know when and how.

Let us be warriors when we must, defending what is right and true,
And let us also be sages, seeking knowledge and understanding deep,
And let us strive to unite these two within our hearts and minds,
That we might serve the cosmic order as Indra doth serve it always.