On Chandradev

To call it a council would be wrong as there was no formal organization. The closest matching description would be closed coup conclave, but it sounded way too evil and ambitious. It was just an informal group of friends, if you really wanted to know, of particularly powerful friends who were plotting against one of their own. Coups were conducted by ambitious and insecure humans, not gods. This wouldn't be a coup even if it amounted to something.

It was not just the administration of the lunar realm either. His ideas were idealistic, outdated, impractical, and they jeopardized the power balance of the divine worlds. And as an individual he was so beloved, it would be difficult to get rid of using the usual means. He had to be safely sidelined, enough to assure that his ideas and organization had the smallest possible outreach.

He had risen to power in a different era. When they believed humans and the divines could equally share power, and the privileges available to the inhabitants of the swarga were available to all regardless of their birth. It was not the blood that determined your destiny, but your deeds, and your deeds and your birth had nothing to do with each other, they believed. No concept of karma, no understanding of the fact that if you suffer now it's because of the bad deeds you did previously and surely if you improve you can improve your status in the universe in the next rebirth. Such beliefs made the mortals angsty. For if all you have is the current life, you're unlikely to want to spend all of it devoted to a god or demigod and hope for a miracle from them. The patron system between gods-devotees didn't exist, and there was always a clash for power. Everyone tried getting ahead of everyone else, there was much instability. The gods couldn't count upon one of themselves, for you never knew who would go out of their way to accommodate the humans and gain overwhelming favor with them.

He had thrived in those times. He believed that there was an alternative to the competition. If only all the humans and gods cooperated for the overall wellbeing of the realm -- not just their realm but all the realms of the creation, there would be peace prosperity and stability. Gods shouldn't need to hoard all the powers for themselves, he believed, and that the demonic races of divine and mortal beings had been created by Gods themselves. He considered it reasonable that if they the daityas, danavs and asurs were given enough respect and the place they deserved in the celestial order, they would stop trying to disrupt the realm of the gods and the humans.

That era had gradually but eventually passed away in the rest of the realms, but in his realm he maintained the same standards. He had toned down on the proselytizing but he would be awfully quiet when matters of dealing with the demonic races or the humans with a strong hand got brought up.

His ideas were good and noble, all present would agree on that. But nobility and goodness can go only far when the entire stability and existence of the realms is in question. And what if in trying to get to such an idealistic scenario, the existing order was taken over by demons who liked torturing and harassing the humans, for all eternity? While well-intentioned, such ideas were threats to the gods and to the humans, and it was politically expedient to suppress them until conditions arose such that the mortals were able to shoulder such great privileges and the responsibilities that came with it.